Symbolic Approaches to Spatial Knowledge Representation and Inference

Yee Leung
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Yee Leung: The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Chapter 2 in Intelligent Spatial Decision Support Systems, 1997, pp 11-57 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Knowledge representation and inference are main concerns in building systems with artificial intelligence. To be able to understand and to reason, an intelligent machine needs prior knowledge about the problem domain. To understand sentences, for example, natural language understanding systems have to be equipped with prior knowledge about topics of conversation and participants. To be able to see and interpret scenes, vision systems need to have in store prior information of objects to be seen. Therefore, any intelligent systems should possess a knowledge base containing facts and concepts related to a problem domain and their relationships. There should also be an inference mechanism which can process symbols in the knowledge base and derive implicit knowledge from explicitly expressed knowledge.

Keywords: Knowledge Representation; Propositional Logic; Semantic Network; Truth Table; Predicate Logic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-60714-1_2

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