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Accession Number:
ADA095425
Title:
Matching and Abstraction in Knowledge Systems,
Descriptive Note:
Corporate Author:
RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
Report Date:
1980-01-01
Pagination or Media Count:
40.0
Abstract:
The first problem is creating what Ill call a Knowledge System, putting into the computer what people have variously called knowledge, or representations of interesting relationships, or expertise, like what a word means, or how it ought to generate inferences. The second one is getting the system to work. The first problem is a human and theoretical limitation the second is an engineering limitation. And the third problem is a methodological one. Most of the interesting problems that humans solve are not sovled by following a particular algorithm deterministically to some simple solution. Rather, solutions are usually selected from a large set of possible, more or less good answers to a question that is, a simple question to retrieve some information usually produces a number of partially correct responses, and that produces a requirement to search a set of alternatives for the preferred ones.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
