Chapter 2 – Knowledge in AI

2.1  Overview

2.2  Introduction

2.3  Representing Knowledge

2.4  Metrics for Assessing Knowledge Representation Schemes

2.5  Logic Representations

2.6  Procedural Representation

2.6.1  The Database

2.6.2  The Production Rules

2.6.3  The Interpreter

2.6.4  An Example Production System: Making a Loan

2.7  Network Representations

2.8  Structured Representations

2.8.1  Frames

2.8.2  Scripts

2.9  General Knowledge

2.10  The Frame Problem

2.11  Knowledge Elicitation

2.12  Summary

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