Outline Of The Fifth Generation Computer Systems Project And Icot Activities

Outline of the Fifth Generation Computer Systems Project and ICOT Activities

Abstract: "The Fifth Generation Computer Systems Project was launched in 1982 as part of the information-related policy of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). Its purpose is to research and develop a new computer technology that will provide the basis for the creation of knowledge information processing systems (KIPS) needed in the 1990s. ICOT has been entrusted by MITI to promote this national project in cooperation with manufacturers, national and public research organizations, and universities. The project has been proceeding according to a ten-year plan, which is divided into an initial three-year stage, an intermediate four-year stage and a final three-year stage. This year, 1989, is the first year of the final stage. This paper shows [the] outline of the planning stage and the ten-year plan of the FGCS project, R & D results, and ICOT activities to promote the spread of R & D results."

FGCS '92

Parallelization in Inference Systems

This volume contains the proceedings of an international workshop on parallelism in inference systems held in Germany in December 1990. The topicof the workshop is still rather young and several papers in the book are overview articles intended to provide a first orientation toward some of the more intensively investigated subtopics. The main part of the book is a compilation of research papers on parallelization in special domains ofinference such as rewriting, automatic reasoning, logic programming, andconnectionist inference. Appended to the book is a collection of short project summaries received in response to a worldwide email call. The book is intended primarily for researchers working on inference systems who are interested in parallelizing their systems.