Order dependence of declarative knowledge representation

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-1990

Abstract

It has been a widely accepted assumption among knowledge representation researchers that declarative knowledge representation is in some sense order independent. In this paper we will argue that there are a number of different possible senses of the term “order independent” and that one needs at least one type of order dependence to develop a cognitively valid knowledge representation system that takes knowledge acquisition into account. We will distinguish between spatial, temporal, and conceptual order dependence. We argue that any system dealing with a changing knowledge base should maintain the conceptual order implied by the chronological order of the concepts it is acquiring. It will be shown for the SNePS (Semantic Network Processing System) system that order dependence can be incorporated without any changes to the theory or interpreter of the system.

Identifier

84913416002 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9783540526261]

Publication Title

Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0022082

e-ISSN

16113349

ISSN

03029743

First Page

41

Last Page

54

Volume

437 LNAI

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