| 1986 | Algebraic versus probabilistic independence in decision theory. | S. K. Michael Wong, Wojciech Ziarko |
| 1986 | Acquisition of knowledge from data. | Gio Wiederhold, Michael G. Walker, Robert L. Blum, S. Downs |
| 1986 | An inference model for inheritance hierarchies with exceptions. | K. Whitebread |
| 1986 | Beginners' strategies in example based expert systems. | Thomas Whalen, Brian Schott |
| 1986 | Estimation of minimax values. | Chun-Hung Tzeng, Paul Walton Purdom Jr. |
| 1986 | Expert system on a chip: an engine for real-time approximate reasoning. | Masaki Togai, Hiroyuki Watanabe |
| 1986 | Knowledge-based processing/interpretation of oceanographic satellite data. | Michael G. Thomason, Richard E. Blake, Matthew Lybanon |
| 1986 | Inference propagation in emitter, system hierarchies. | Thomas A. Sudkamp |
| 1986 | A semantic and logical front-end to a database system. | M. Rajinikanth, Prasanta K. Bose |
| 1986 | A decidable query answering algorithm for circumscriptive theories. | Teodor C. Przymusinski |
| 1986 | Extensions to functional programming in Scheme. | David A. Plaisted, J. W. Curry |
| 1986 | Selecting expert system frameworks within the Bayesian theory. | Steven W. Norton |
| 1986 | The frame-definition language for customizing the Raffaello structure-editor in host expert systems. | Ephraim Nissan |
| 1986 | Towards an intelligent and personalized retrieval system. | Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Robert R. Korfhage |
| 1986 | Emerging principles in machine learning. | Ryszard S. Michalski |
| 1986 | Taxonomic ambiguities in category variations needed to support machine conceptualization. | Lawrence J. Mazlack |
| 1986 | Approximating sets with equivalence relations. | V. Wiktor Marek, Helena Rasiowa |
| 1986 | Fuzzy knowledge engineering techniques in scientific document classification. | Ramn Lpez de Mntaras, Jaume Agust-Cullell, Ulises Corts, Enric Plaza |
| 1986 | Automated theorem proving: mapping logic into AI. | Donald W. Loveland |
| 1986 | Tree resolution and generalized semantic tree. | Sukhamay Kundu |
| 1986 | A model for self-adaptation in a robot colony. | T. V. D. Kumar, N. Parameswaran |
| 1986 | Experimenting and theorizing in theory formation. | B. W. Koehn, Jan M. Zytkow |
| 1986 | Notes on conceptual representations. | Eld Knuth, Lszl Hannk, gnes Herndi |
| 1986 | NESS: A coupled simulation expert system. | Kazuhiko Kawamura, Guy O. Beale, J. Rodriquez-Moscoso, B. J. Hsieh, Samir Padalkar |
| 1986 | Simulations and symbolic explanations. | David H. Helman, Jeffrey L. Bennett, A. W. Foster |