Johan de Kleer

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Johan de Kleer is an American computer scientist.

Johan de Kleer studied mathematics and computer science at the University of British Columbia with a bachelor's degree and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's degree and doctorate in 1979 with Gerald Sussman (Causal and teleological reasoning in circuit recognition). He is a PARC Research Fellow at Xerox PARC where he heads the Model Based Reasoning (MBR) group. Research areas he initiated are Qualitative Reasoning, Assumption-based Truth Maintenance System (ATMS) and Model-Based Diagnosis.

In 1987 he received the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award . He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the AAAI .

Fonts

  • with JS Brown: A qualitative physics based on confluences, Artificial intelligence, Volume 24, 1984, pp. 7-83
  • An assumption-based TMS, Artificial intelligence, Volume 28, 1986, pp. 127-162
  • with BC Williams: Diagnosing multiple faults, Artificial intelligence, Volume 32, 1987, pp. 97-130
  • with AK Mackworth, Ray Reiter: Characterizing diagnoses and systems, Artificial intelligence, Volume 56, 1992, pp. 197–222
  • with Kenneth D. Forbus: Building problem solvers, MIT Press 1993
  • with Daniel S. Weld: Readings in qualitative reasoning about physical systems, Morgan Kaufmann 2013
  • with Walter Hamscher, Luca Console: Readings in model based diagnosis, Morgan Kaufmann 1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Johan de Kleer in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used