EPIA 1989: EPIA 89 pp 39-50 | Cite as

Efficient frame systems

  • Dario Giuse
Knowledge Representation
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 390)

Abstract

Frame systems occupy an important place among formalisms for computer-based knowledge representation. A common concern about frame systems is that they are not efficient enough. We argue that this is not necessarily true of all possible systems, and that the trade-off between representational power and efficiency has not been fully explored. It is possible, in particular, to design frame systems that retain much of the flexibility while providing excellent performance. Such systems are well suited for applications that need flexible knowledge representation but cannot afford the high performance price.

Keywords

Knowledge Representation Semantic Network Defense Advance Research Project Agency Frame System Functional Interface 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Dario Giuse
    • 1
  1. 1.The Robotics InstituteCarnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburghUSA

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