Evolving Systems of Knowledge

The enterprise of developing knowledge-based systems is currently witnessing great growth in popularity. The utility of a well-stocked store of examples and the ability to generate new examples are emphasized. Section 3 displays a wide variety of rule operations in addition to the rule interpreter which applies rules. It includes an argument that systems must be designed to respond well to forces of change. Speech on Artificial Intelligence delivered to the Canadian Information Processing Society, Session '84, Calgary, Alberta An earlier version of this article was published in the Proceedings of the CIPS/Session '84 This article was written while the author was with Rutgers Univcrsity Revision of draft performed at BBN Laboratories Research reported here was supported by NSF Grants Knowledge based systems may be usefully viewed in terms of three interrelated spaces.