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W. J. Clancey (Ed.) (2026) The Philosophy of Comprehensive Design: Collected Articles and Speeches of John E. Arnold. Kindle Print Replica e-Book.

W. J. Clancey, C. Linde, C. Seah, & M. G. Shafto (2021) When Computers Tell People What to Do: A Work Practice Simulation of the Überlingen Mid-Air Collision. Kindle Print Replica e-Book.

W. J. Clancey (2020) Designing Agents for People: Case Studies of the Brahms Work Practice Simulation Framework. Kindle Print Replica e-Book.

Arnold, J. E. (1959/2016) Creative Engineering: Promoting Innovation by Thinking Differently. Edited with an introduction and biographical essay by W. J. Clancey.

Clancey, W. J. (2012) Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers.

Cerri, S. A., Clancey, W. J., Papadourakis, G., Panourgia, K. K. (Eds.) (2012) Intelligent Tutoring Systems.
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Knowledge-Based Tutoring (1979/1987) |
Readings in Medical Artificial Intelligence (available online) |
Articles are ordered chronologically, most recent first. See also annual Mars Society Conference reports for field experiments at MDRS 2003-2006.
Sierhuis, M., R. van Hoof, R., Clancey, W. J., Scott, M. (2001) From Work Practice Models and Simulation to Implementation of Human-Centered Agent Systems. Workshop on Agent Supported Cooperative Work (ASCW01), 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents. Montreal, Canada, May 29.
Bradshaw, J. M., Sierhuis, M., Gawdiak, Y., Thomas, H., Greaves, M. and Clancey, W. J. (2000) Human-Centered Design for the Personal Satellite Assistant. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Aeronautics, Toulouse, France.
Sierhuis, M. and Clancey, W. J. (1997) Knowledge, practice, activities, and people. Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Management. Stanford University, CA.
Clancey, W. J., Jordan, B., Sachs, P., and Torok, D. (1993) Formal modeling for work system design. AAAI National Conference, “Modeling in the Large” Workshop Abstract. Washington, D.C.
Transactional Systems of Exploration and Learning: The Okeanos Explorer (in press) In J. Öhman, L. Östman, J. Garrison (Eds.), Deweyan Transactionalism in Education: Beyond Self-action and Inter-action. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
The Reflective Science of Ethnography and Its Role in Pragmatic Design (2018) Constructivist Foundations, 13 (1), 73–76.
Jacobson, M.J., Goldstone, R., Chi, M., Abrahamson, D., Kapur, M., Clancey, W.J. (2007) Complex Systems and the Cognitive Sciences: Potential for Pervasive Theoretical and Research Implications? In D.S. McNamara & J.G. Trafton (Eds.), 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2007), "CogSci in the Real World," (pp. 26–27). Nashville, TN. August.
Experiential knowledge and engineering education (1987). Presented at the McDonnell "AI and Engineering Education" Workshop, Asilomar, CA, December 13–15.
AI and Engineering: Report on the Asilomar Workshop (1987). Organizer's report for the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
Reconceiving the role of Artificial Intelligence in Education (1988). In K. Fielden, F. Hicks, and N. Scott (Eds.), Sixth Annual Conference of Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE-88). Canberra: Canberra College of Advanced Education (pp. 2–9).
The frame of reference problem in cognitive modeling (1989). Proceedings of 11th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 107–114). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
The knowledge level reinterpreted: Modeling how systems interact (1989). Machine Learning, 4, 287–293.
Engineering at the college level (1989). Unpublished position paper, Institute for Research on Learning, September.
The frontiers of AI research (1990). In L. C. Wensel and G. S. Biging (Eds.), Forest Simulation Systems: Proceedings of the IUFRO Conference, November 2–5, 1988 (pp. 113–127). Oakland, CA: University of California.
Clancey, W. J. and Soloway, E. (1990). Artificial Intelligence and Learning Environments: Preface. Artificial Intelligence, 42, 1–6.
Invited speaker: Bill Clancey (Introduction by Jacobijn Sandberg) (1991). AI Communications, The European Journal on Artificial Intelligence, 4 (1), 4–10.
Situated cognition: Stepping out of representational flatland (1991). AI Communications, The European Journal on Artificial Intelligence, 4 (2/3), 109–112.
Why today's computers don't learn the way people do (1991). In P.A. Flach and R. A. Meersman (Eds.), Future Directions in Artificial Intelligence (pp. 53–62). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Bartlett’s view of the group as a psychological unit (1991). AAAI Fall Symposium on Knowledge and Action at Social and Organizational Levels (pp. 20–22). Asilomar, CA: AAAI Press.
Review of Rosenfield’s The Invention of Memory (1991). Artificial Intelligence, 50 (2), 241–284.
The frame of reference problem in the design of intelligent machines (1991). In K. vanLehn (Ed.), Architectures for Intelligence: The Twenty-Second Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition (pp. 357–424). Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum.
New perspectives on cognition and instructional technology (1992). In E.Costa (Ed.), New Directions for Intelligent Tutoring Systems (pp. 3–14). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Overview of the Institute for Research on Learning (1992). CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 571–572).
Roschelle, J. and Clancey, W. J. (1992). Learning as social and neural. The Educational Psychologist, 27(4), 435–453.
Representations of knowing: In defense of cognitive apprenticeship (1992). Journal of AI Education, 3 (2), 139–168.
Knowledge Level (1992). In S. C. Shapiro (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, Volume 1 (pp. 742–742). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
A situated cognition perspective on learning on demand (1993). Proceedings of 15th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 181–183). Boulder.
Notes on “Epistemology of a rule-based expert system” (1993). Artificial Intelligence, 59 (1/2), 197–204.
Notes on “Heuristic classification” (1993). Artificial Intelligence, 59 (1-2), 191–196.
Situated action: A neuropsychological interpretation (Response to Vera and Simon) (1993). Cognitive Science, 17 (1), 87–107.
The biology of consciousness: Comparative review of Israel Rosenfield, The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: An Anatomy of Consciousness and Gerald M. Edelman, Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind (1993). Artificial Intelligence, 60, 313-356.
Guidon-Manage revisited: A socio-technical systems approach (1993). Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 4 (1), 5–34.
Comment on diSessa (1994). Cognition and Instruction, 12 (2), 97–102.
Situated cognition: How representations are created and given meaning (1994). In R. Lewis and P. Mendelsohn (Eds.), Lessons from Learning (pp. 231–242). Amsterdam: North-Holland.
A boy scout, Toto, and a bird: How situated cognition is different from situated robotics (1995). In L. Steels and R. Brooks (Eds.), The “Artificial Life” Route to "Artificial Intelligence”: Building Situated Embodied Agents (pp. 227-236). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (Position paper for the 1991 NATO Workshop on Emergence, Situatedness, Subsumption, and Symbol Grounding.)
A tutorial on situated learning (1995). In T.-W. Chan and J. Self (Eds.), Emerging computer technologies in education: Selected papers of the International Conference on Computers and Education (Taiwan) (pp. 49–70). Charlottesville, USA: AACE.
Perceptual recategorization vs. grammatical task models—relating Neomycin, Soar, and Neural Darwinism (1995). In T.-W. Chan and J. Self (Eds.), Emerging computer technologies in education: Selected papers of the International Conference on Computers and Education (Taiwan) (pp. 207–42). Charlottesville, USA: AACE.
The learning process in the epistemology of medical information (1995). Methods of Information in Medicine, 34 (1/2), 122–30.
Practice cannot be reduced to theory: Knowledge, representations, and change in the workplace (1995). In S. Bagnara, C. Zuccermaglio, and S. Stucky (Eds.) Organizational Learning and Technological Change,(pp. 16–46). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
AI: Inventing a new kind of machine (1995). ACM Computing Surveys, 27 (3), 320–322.
Conceptual coordination: Abstraction without description (1997). International Journal of Educational Research, 27 (1), 5–19.
The conceptual nature of knowledge, situations, and activity (1997). In P. Feltovich, K. Ford, and R. Hoffman (Eds.), Human and Machine Expertise in Context (pp. 247–291). Menlo Park, CA: The AAAI Press.
Interactive coordination processes: How the brain accomplishes what we take for granted in computer languages—and then does it better (1998). In Pylyshyn, Z. (Ed.) Constraining Cognitive Theories: Issues and Options (pp. 165–190). Greenwich: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
Developing learning technology in practice (1998). In C. Bloom and R. B. Loftin (Eds.), Facilitating the Development and Use of Interactive Learning Environments (pp. 3–20). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Greeno, J. G., Clancey, W. J., Lewis, C., Seidenberg, M., Derry, S., Gernsbacher, M. A., Langley, P., Shafto, M., Gentner, D., Lesgold, A., and Seifert, C. M. 1998. Efforts to encourage multidisciplinarity in the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science 22 (1), 131–132.
T. Menzies and Clancey, W. J. 1998. Editorial: the challenge of situated cognition for symbolic knowledge-based systems. Int. J. Human–Computer Studies 49, 767–769.
Studying the varieties of consciousness: Stories about zombies or the life about us? (1999). Journal of the Learning Sciences, 8 (3–4), 525–40.
Feigenbaum, E.A. and Clancey, W. J. 1981. Knowledge engineering, objectives and direction. Mathematical Sciences, 4, 11–20. (Printed in Japanese.)
Clancey, W. J. and Buchanan, B. G. (1982). Exploration of problem-solving and tutoring strategies: 1979–1982. (1982). Technical Report No. STAN-CS-82-910 (HPP 82-8), Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Communication, simulation, and intelligent agents: Implications of personal intelligent machines for medical education (1983). Proceedings of AAMSI-83 (pp. 556–560).
GUIDON (1983). Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 10 (1/2), 8–15. Also STAN-CS-83-997 (HPP-83-42), Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Review of Jonathan Miller’s States of Mind (1983). The AI Magazine, 4 (4), 61–66, Winter.
Classification problem solving (1984). Proceedings of AAAI-84, pp. 49–55. Also STAN-CS-84-1018 (HPP-84-7), Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Review of Weiss and Kulikowski’s A Practical Guide to Designing Expert Systems (1984).
The AI Magazine, 5 (4), 84–86, Winter.
Teaching classification problem solving (1984). Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 44–46). Boulder.
Expert system design: Lessons from applications to education (1985). Proceedings of IEEE Spring Computer Conference (p. 115). [Co-recipient of "Best session of the day" award.]
Review of Sowa’s Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machine (1985). Artificial Intelligence, 27 (1), 113–124.
Wilkins, D. C., Clancey, W. J., and Buchanan, B. G. (1985). Odysseus: A learning apprentice. Proceedings of the Third International Machine Learning Workshop (pp. 221–223).
Software tools for developing expert systems (1985). In I. De Lotto and M. Stefanelli (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (pp. 155–178). Pavia, Italy, 13-14 September.
Know-how vs. knowledge representation (1986). Proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Compilation (pp. 1–2). Oregon State Technical Report, September.
Clancey, W. J., Richer, M., Wilkins, D. C., Barnhouse, S., Kapsner, C., Leserman, D., Macias, J., Merchant, A., and Rodolitz, N. (1986). GUIDON-DEBUG: The student as knowledge engineer. Working paper No. KSL-86-34. Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Knowledge engineering methodology: An annotated bibliography of NEOMYCIN research (1987). Second Annual Advanced Artificial Intelligence Tutorials, Oslo, Norway, July 28 - August 7.
Detecting and coping with failure (1988). Proceedings of the Symposium on Explanation-Based Learning, AAAI Spring Symposium Series, March.
Clancey, W. J. and Joerger, K. (1990). A practical authoring shell for apprenticeship learning. In M. Gardner, J. G. Greeno, F. Reif, A. H. Schoenfeld, A. diSessa, and E. Stage (Eds.), Toward a Scientific Practice of Science Education (pp. 141–161). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Woolf, B. P., Soloway, E., Clancey, W. J., van Lehn, K., and Suthers, D. (1990). Knowledge-based Environments for Teaching and Learning. AI Magazine 11 (5), 74–77. Report of AAAI Spring Symposium.
Model construction operators (1992). Artificial Intelligence, 53 (1), 1–124.