REASONING AGENTS IN A DYNAMIC WORLD: THE FRAME PROBLEM
[JAI Press 1991, Greenwich CT, 289 pages, ISBN 1-55938-082-9]
Precis of Hayes and Ford (eds) on Frame-Problem

Abstract

What happens when one picks up a brick? Any child knows that the brick is now held in the air, there is one fewer object on the ground, and THAT'S ALL. For over twenty years it has been astonishingly hard to make a computer draw this conclusion. This "frame problem" is symptomatic of a host of problems in how to properly represent common knowledge about everyday actions. The papers in this volume discuss some of these problems, develop approaches to solving them, or draw philosophical conclusions from them.

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