On Knowledge Representation Issues
Alex Abramovich2004
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Abstract
: Knowledge Representations issues take on special significance in the light of development of the novel Web's reality that involves the Semantic Web, GRID, P2P and other today's ITs. In contrast to the previous IT evolution's stages, the recent one utilizes ontology as separated resource. An elaborate knowledge representation approach implies an efficiency of knowledge-based systems and their interoperability. This paper deals with Ontology Engineering approach that allows both build and generate the consistent dynamic autonomous knowledge-based systems.
Key takeaways
- Thus it is possible to say that knowledge is an instrument of reasoning.
- [ Since a human life cycle is constituted by set of profession/living activities, reasoning serves these activities' achievement.
- Reasoning is a human mental activity that operates with human activities knowledge for the purpose of the social unit's life cycle providing.
- RL is a procedural, a markup, an ontology language as well as an action language, destined for the description of reasoning that required for the activities' performance.
- A corresponding domain world AP (APdw) provides a semantic sharing of domain activities as well as of domain ontology.
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