procedural knowledge

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

Procedural knowledge encodes some sort of process or algorithm to create an answer in contrast to decarative knowledge. This distinction applies to human reasing, for example you might know how to add up large numbers on an abacus (procedural knowledge) wheras another person might simply remember that 12+23 is 35 (decarative knowledge). It also applies to automated reasoning , for example the use of grammars and parsing in natural language processing (procedural knowledge) vs. looking things up in large databases (decarative knowledge).

Defined on page 15

Used on pages 15, 23, 402

Also known as analytic rules, procedural, procedural