Abstract

The objective of this disclosure is to propose a method of designing an intelligent system assuring autonomy in problem solving to the largest extent. An architecture of a general purpose problem solving system and also a new modeling scheme for representing an object which may include human activity are discussed first. Then a special purpose problem solving system dedicated for a given problem is generated. It is extracted from a general purpose system using the object model as a template. Several new concepts are included in this disclosure to achieve this goal; a multi-level function structure and its corresponding knowledge structure, multiple meta-level operations, a level manager for building general purpose problem solving systems, a concept of multi-strata model to represent objects including human activity, and a method of extracting a special purpose system from a general purpose system and so on. This idea induces a very different view to computer systems from the conventional ones and systems designed according to this idea extend the scope of computer applications to a large extent, e.g., they can solve problems which require exploratory operations. In particular, it is important that this idea leads us to the concept of automatic programming instead of the conventional style of using computers.

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