{"pk":33042,"title":"Opportunistic Reasoning: A Design Perspective","subtitle":null,"abstract":"n essential component of opportunistic behavior is oppor?tunity recognition, the recognition of those conditions that \nfacilitate the pursuit of some suspended goal. Opportunity \nrecognition is a special case of situation assessment, the pro?cess of sizing up a novel situation. The ability to recognize \nopportunities for reinstating suspended problem contexts (one \nway in which goals manifest themselves in design) is crucial \nto creative design. In order to deal with real world oppor?tunity recognition, we attribute limited inferential power to \nrelevant suspended goals. W e propose that goals suspended in \nthe working memory monitor the internal (hidden) represen?tations of the currently recognized objects. A suspended goal \nis satisfied when the current internal representation and a sus?pended goal \"match\". W e propose a computational model for \nworking memory and we compare it with other relevant theo?ries of opportunistic planning. This working memory model is \nimplemented as part of our IMPROVISER system.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"17","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dk3v4rt","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Marin","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Simina","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgia Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Janet","middle_name":"L .","last_name":"Kolodner","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgia Institute of Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1995-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33042/galley/24104/download/"}]}