Piero P. Bonissone's Research Interests:

Rule-based Reasoning (RBR)

Timeline

Papers

(1994) [32] P. Bonissone, S. Dutta, N. Wood, Merging Strategic and Tactical Planning in Dynamic, Uncertain Environments, IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics, 24(6): 841-862, June 1994 (pdf)

(1994) [31] P. Bonissone and S. Ayub, Representing Cases and Rules in Plausible Reasoning Systems, Proceedings of the 1994 ARPA/RL Planning Initiative, pp. 305-316, Tucson, AZ, Feb. 1994

(1993) [30] P. Bonissone, Knowledge Representation and Inference in First Generation Knowledge Based Systems, in Advances in Expert Systems for Management, Vol.1, pp 59-86, Wallace and M. Grabowski (Editors), JAI Press, Greenwich, CT, 1993

(1992) [29] P. Bonissone and S. Dutta, Merging Strategic and Tactical Planning in Dynamic, Uncertain Environments, Proceedings of the Eight IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications (CAIA-92), Monterrey, CA, March 1992 (pdf)

(1990) [28] S. Dutta and P. Bonissone, MARS: A Mergers and Acquisitions Reasoning System, Journal of Computer Science in Economics and Management, 3:239-268, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 (pdf: SpringerLink)

(1990) [27] S. Dutta and P. Bonissone, Integrating Case Based And Rule Based Reasoning: The Possibilistic Connection, Proc. 6th Conference on Uncertainty in AI, pp. 290-300 Cambridge, MA, July 27-29, 1990 (pdf from ACM Portal)

(1990) [26] P. Bonissone and P. Halverson, Time-Constrained Reasoning Under Uncertainty, The Journal of Real Time Systems, 2:22-45, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 1990 (pdf: SprigerLink)

(1990) [25] P. Bonissone, D. Cyrluk, J. Goodwin, J. Stillman, Uncertainty and Incompleteness: Breaking the Symmetry of Defeasible Reasoning, in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence: Vol. 5, M. Henrion, R. Shacter, L. Kanal and J. Lemmer (Eds.), pp. 67-85, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1990

(1990) [24] P. Bonissone, Now that I Have a Good Theory of Uncertainty, What Else Do I Need?, in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence: Vol. 5, M. Henrion, R. Shacter, L. Kanal and J. Lemmer (Editors), pp. 237--253, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1990

(1990) [23] J. Aragones, P. Bonissone, J. Stillman, PRIMO: A Tool for Reasoning with Incomplete and Uncertain Information, Proc. Third International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 90), pp. 325-327, Paris, France, July 2-6, 1990.

(1989) [22] P. Bonissone and N.C. Wood, T-norm Based Reasoning in Situation Assessment Applications, in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 3, L. Kanal, T. Levitt, and J. Lemmer (Eds.), pp. 241--256, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1989

(1989) [21] P. Bonissone, RUM (Reasoning with Uncertainty Module) And RUMRUNNER (RUM's Run Time System), in Expert Systems in Structural Safety Assessment, pp. 131-150, Springer-Verlag, October 1989

(1989) [20] P. Bonissone, Knowledge Representation and Inference in Knowledge Based Systems (Expert Systems), in Expert Systems in Structural Safety Assessment, pp. 53-65, Springer-Verlag, October 1989

(1989) [19] P. Bonissone, An Industrial First Generation KBS (Expert System): DELTA/CATS, in Expert Systems in Structural Safety Assessment, pp. 80-89, Springer-Verlag, October 1989

(1989) [18] P. Bonissone, A Rule Backward Chainer for Knowledge Based Systems (Expert Systems), in Expert Systems in Structural Safety Assessment, pp. 66-79, Springer-Verlag, October 1989

(1989) [17] P. Bonissone, Uncertainty in KBS (Expert Systems), in Expert Systems in Structural Safety Assessment, pp. 93-112, Springer-Verlag, October 1989

(1989) [16] P. Bonissone, D. Cyrluk, J. Stillman, J. Goodwin, Uncertainty and Incompleteness: Breaking the Symmetry of Defeasible Reasoning, Proc. 1989 Conference of Uncertainty in AI, pp. 34-45, Windsor, Canada, August 18-20, 1989

(1989) [15] P. Bonissone, Now that I Have a Good Theory of Uncertainty, What Else Do I Need?, Proc. 1989 Conference of Uncertainty in AI, pp. 22-33, Windsor, Canada, August 18-20, 1989.

(1988) [14] P. Bonissone, L. Pfau, From RUM to RUMrunner: Transitioning Reasoning with Uncertainty to a Run-Time Environment, Proc. 1988 GE Software Engineering Conference, Daytona Beach, Florida, May 1988

(1987) [13] P. Bonissone, Using T-norm Based Uncertainty Calculi in a Naval Situation Assessment Application, in the Proc. Third AAAI Workshop on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 250-261, Seattle, Washington, July 1987

(1987) [12] P. Bonissone, Plausible Reasoning: Coping with Uncertainty in Expert Systems, in The Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, S. Shapiro (Ed.), pp. 854-863, John Wiley and Sons, 1987

(1987) [11] P. Bonissone, Summarizing and Propagating Uncertain Information with Triangular Norms, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 1(1): 71-101, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1987 (pdf: ScienceDirect - paper #8)

(1987) [10] P. Bonissone, S. Gans, K. Decker, RUM: A Layered Architecture for Reasoning with Uncertainty, Proc. 1987 International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 87), pp. 891-898, Milan, Italy, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., August 1987

(1986) [9] P. Bonissone and A. Brown, Expanding the Horizons of Expert Systems, in Expert Systems and Knowledge Engineering, T. Bernold (Ed.), pp. 267-288, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1986

(1986) [8] P. Bonissone and K. Decker, Selecting Uncertainty Calculi and Granularity: An Experiment in Trading-off Precision and Complexity, in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence,, L. Kanal, and J. Lemmer (Eds.), pp. 217-247, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1986

(1985) [7] P. Bonissone and K. Decker, Selecting Uncertainty Calculi and Granularity: An Experiment in Trading-off Precision and Complexity, Proc. Workshop on Uncertainty and Probability in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 57-66, UCLA, Los Angeles CA, August 1985

(1985) [6] P. Bonissone, Reasoning with Uncertainty in Expert Systems Past, Present, and Future, Proceedings of IFSA 85, Mallorca, Spain, July 1-5, 1985

(1985) [5] J. James, P. Bonissone, D. Frederick, J. Taylor, A Retrospective View of CACE-III: Considerations in Coordinating Symbolic and Numeric Computation in a Rule-Based Expert System, Proc. IEEE Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications, pp. 532-538, Miami, FL, December 1985

(1984) [4] P. Bonissone, H. Johnson, Expert System for Diesel Electric Locomotive Repair, The Journal of FORTH Application and Research, 1(1): 7-16, September 1983. Also in Auerbach Data Base Management 1984, and in Human Systems Management, Vol. 4, pp. 255-262, 1984

(1983) [3] P. Bonissone, DELTA: An Expert System to Troubleshoot Diesel Electric Locomotives, Proceeding of ACM 83, pp. 44-45, New York October 24-26, 1983

(1982) [2] P. Bonissone, Outline of the Design and Implementation of a Diesel Electric Engine Troubleshooting Aid, Proceedings of the Technical Conference Expert Systems 82, pp. 68-72, Brunel University, Egham, Surrey, England, Sept. 14-16, 1982

(1982) [1] P. Bonissone, An Expert System for Troubleshooting, Proceeding of First North American Fuzzy Information Processing (NAFIP - 1), Logan, Utah, May 19-21, 1982

Patents (Issued / Applications)

(1991) A Real-Time System for Reasoning With Uncertainty, P. Bonissone, L. Pfau, US Patent Number 5,058,033 (October 15, 1991)

(1989) A Reasoning System for Reasoning with Uncertainty, P. Bonissone, US Patent Number 4,860,213 (August 22, 1989)

Supervised MS - PhD Theses

MS Theses:

(1988) RUMrunner: Real-time Reasoning with Uncertainty, L. Pfau, CS Dept., [Co-Advisor: R. McNaughton]

Uncertain Reasoning For Improved Situation Assessment, S. Gans, MIT, CS Dept. [Co-Advisor: R. Patil]

(1987) RUM: Reasoning with Uncertainty Module, M. Hoffman, CS Dept

Projects

• DELTA - Diesel Electric Locomotive Troubleshooting Aid
• Reasoning with Uncertainty (DARPA) [1985-88]
• Pilot's Associate (DARPA) [1986-89]

Author: Piero P. Bonissone - Email: bonissone@crd.ge.com

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