Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference on
Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Edited by Howard E. Shrobe and Ted E. Senator
August 4–8, 1996, Portland, Oregon. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This proceedings is also available in book and CD format.
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Contents
Organization of AAAI / xix
IAAI-96 Program Committee / xxv
Case Studies
EASy: Expert Authorizations System
Jonathan Altfeld, Brightware, Inc.; Douglas E. Landon and Charles
J. Daniels, Equifax Check Services / 1421
Near Optimal Objects Packing through
Dimensional Unfolding
Emilio Bertolotti, Enrico Castaldo, and Gino Giannone, BULL HN, Italy
/ 1433
Developing and Deploying Knowledge
on a Global Scale
James Borron and David Morales, Reuters America; Philip Klahr, Inference
Corporation / 1443
An Intelligent System for Asset and
Liability Assessment
Urs Bühler and Luca Bosatta, Swiss Bank Corporation, Switzerland;
Lawrence Poynter, Inference (CSE) GmbH, Germany / 1455
Localization of Troubles in Telephone
Cable Networks
Chuxin Chen, Pacific Bell; Teresa L. Hollidge, TIBCO Inc.; and DD Sharma,
Pacific Bell / 1461
Using Artificial Neural Networks to
Predict the Quality and Performance of Oilfield Cements
P. V. Coveney and T. L. Hughes, Schlumberger Cambridge Research Ltd.
; P. Fletcher, Schlumberger Dowell, United Kingdom / 1471
Comet: An Application of Model-Based
Reasoning to Accounting Systems
Robert Nado, Melanie Chams, Jeff Delisio, and Walter Hamscher, Price
Waterhouse Technology Centre / 1482
Diagnosing Delivery Problems in the
White House Information Distribution System
Mark Nahabedian and Howard Shrobe, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
/ 1491
Settlement Analysis Expert (SAX) -
Modeling Complex Business Logic in the Development of Enterprise Solutions
John C. Ownby, Frito-Lay, Inc. / 1500
EZ Reader: Embedded AI for Automatic
Electronic Mail Interpretation and Routing
Amy Rice and Julie Hsu, Brightware, Inc.; Anthony Angotti and Rosanna
Piccolo, Chase Manhattan Bank, N. A. / 1507
Intelligent Retail Logistics Scheduling
John Rowe and Keith Jewers, J. Sainsbury plc; Andrew Codd and Andrew
Alcock, Inference Corporation, United Kingdom / 1518
The NASA Personnel Security Processing
Expert System
David Silberberg, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
and Robert Thomas, NASA Headquarters / 1527
KARMA: Managing Business Rules from
Specification to Implementation
Jacqueline Sobieski, Fannie Mae; Srinivas Krovvidy, Brightware, Inc.;
Colleen McClintock and Margaret Thorpe, Tangram, Inc. / 1536
The SIGNAL Expert System
Rolf Struve, SIGNAL Versicherungen, Germany / 1548
Supporting Performance and Configuration
Management of GTE Cellular Networks
Ming Tan, Carol Lafond, and Gabriel Jakobson, GTE Laboratories, Inc.,
Gary Young, GTE
Mobilnet / 1556
Monitoring Frog Communities: An Application
of Machine Learning
Andrew Taylor, University of New South Wales; Graeme Watson, University
of Melbourne; Gordon Grigg and Hamish McCallum, University of Queensland,
Australia / 1564
AdjudiPro®2. 0
David Williams, Bradley C. Simons, and Joe Connolly, United HealthCare
Corporation / 1570
SSCFI: Autonomous Fault Isolation
in Communications Circuits
Ralph Worrest, Roland Zito-Wolf, Hongbin Wang, and Shri Goyal, GTE Laboratories
Incorporated / 1579