ODDA: An Expert System for Planning and Conducting Directional Drilling
Eric Cayeux, P. O. Overti · 1992
Abstract The Automated Mathematician (AM) of Douglas Lenat1 has discovered a very useful way of generalising concepts which is applicable in many circonstances: If a concept is expressed as a conjunction of two or more other concepts, try to examine the new concept built by replacing the conjunction with a disjunction.1 The application of this heuristic has allowed AM to discover the concept of "prime number". Applied to the description of a complex system, this rule of thumb may be interpreted as: replace an exhaustive and sequential presentation of a complex system with a set of short views on that system.