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Associate Chair
Department of Computer and Informational Sciences
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware 19716
Phone (302) 831 - 1955
Email chester at cis.udel.edu
Research Interests
The focus of my research is knowledge representation. Much of the work in
artificial intelligence involves encoding a problem in some representation,
solving the problem and presenting the solution in some representation.
The representations for input, output and intermediate calculations are
interpreted by humans, however, and that interpretation is their sole source
of meaning. Unfortunately, the interpretation is done informally; it seldom
has the formal semantics behind it that the interpretation of logical or
mathematical formulas has. My goal is to develop knowledge representations,
especially for the intermediate calculations, that derive their meaning in a
more rigorous way than is usually done, and that depend less on human
interpretation to have meaning.