TY - GEN
T1 - Order dependence of declarative knowledge representation
AU - Geller, James
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990.
PY - 1990
Y1 - 1990
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1007/BFb0022082
DO - 10.1007/BFb0022082
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84913416002
SN - 9783540526261
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 41
EP - 54
BT - Current Trends in SNePS - Semantic Network Processing System - 1st Annual SNePS Workshop, Proceedings
A2 - Kumar, Deepak
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 1st Annual Semantic Network Processing System Workshop, SNePS 1989
Y2 - 13 November 1989 through 13 November 1989
ER -