knowledge representation


knowledge representation

The subfield of artificial intelligence concerned withdesigning and using systems for storing knowledge - factsand rules about some subject.

A body of formally represented knowledge is based on aconceptualisation - an abstract view of the world that wewish to represent. In order to manipulate this knowledge wemust specify how the abstract conceptualisation is representedas a concrete data structure. An ontology is an explicitspecification of a conceptualisation.

knowledge representation

A method used to code knowledge in an expert system, typically a series of IF-THEN rules (IF this condition occurs, THEN take this action).