Adaptive problem solving is a means of reconciling two seemingly contradictory needs.
On the one hand, general purpose techniques can ease much of the burden of developing a application and satisfy the oft argued need for declarative and modular knowledge representation. On the other hand, general purpose approaches are ill-suited to the specialized demands of individual applications. General approaches have proven successful, only after a tedious cycle of manual experimentation and modification. 16 Note this learner is learning about the usage patterns of the reasoner, and not about the domain per se. A Probabilistic Solution to the. .