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Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

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KRR Book by John F Sowa

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KRR Unit 1: The Key Concepts

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KRR Imp QnA Unit 1,2,3

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UNIT - 1: The Key Concepts

The Key Concepts

  • Knowledge
  • Representation
  • Reasoning
  • Why knowledge representation and reasoning
  • Role of logic

Logic

  • Historical background
  • Representing knowledge in logic
  • Varieties of logic
  • Name, Type, Measures
  • Unity Amidst diversity

UNIT - 2: Ontology

Ontology

  • Ontological categories
  • Philosophical background
  • Top-level categories
  • Describing physical entities
  • Defining abstractions
  • Sets, Collections, Types and Categories
  • Space and Time

UNIT - 3: Knowledge Representations

Knowledge Representations

  • Knowledge Engineering
  • Representing structure in frames
  • Rules and data
  • Object-oriented systems
  • Natural language Semantics
  • Levels of representation

UNIT - 4: Processes

Processes

  • Times, Events and Situations
  • Classification of processes
  • Procedures, Processes and Histories
  • Concurrent processes
  • Computation
  • Constraint satisfaction
  • Change Contexts: Syntax of contexts, Semantics of contexts
  • First-order reasoning in contexts
  • Modal reasoning in contexts
  • Encapsulating objects in contexts

UNIT - 5: Knowledge Soup

Knowledge Soup

  • Vagueness, Uncertainty, Randomness and Ignorance
  • Limitations of logic
  • Fuzzy logic
  • Nonmonotonic Logic
  • Theories, Models and the world
  • Semiotics Knowledge Acquisition and Sharing
  • Sharing Ontologies
  • Conceptual schema
  • Accommodating multiple paradigms
  • Relating different knowledge representations
  • Language patterns
  • Tools for knowledge acquisition
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