Heterogeneous knowledge representation: integrating connectionist and symbolic computations
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Technical report
Author(s)
Montesi, Danilo
Type
Report
Abstract
Heterogeneous knowledge representation allows to combine several
knowledge represent techniques. For instance connectionist and symbolic systems are two different computational paradigms and knowledge representation tools. Unfortunately, the integration of different paradigms and knowledge representations is not easy and very often is informal. In this paper, we prop ose a formal approach to integrate these two paradigms where as symbolic system we consider a (logic) rule based system. The integration is operated at language level between neural networks and rule languages. The formal mo del that allow the integration is based on constraint logic programming and provide an integrated framework to represent and pro cess heterogeneous knowledge. In order to achieve this we de ne a new language that allow to express and mo del in a natural and intuitive way the above issues together with the operational semantics.
knowledge represent techniques. For instance connectionist and symbolic systems are two different computational paradigms and knowledge representation tools. Unfortunately, the integration of different paradigms and knowledge representations is not easy and very often is informal. In this paper, we prop ose a formal approach to integrate these two paradigms where as symbolic system we consider a (logic) rule based system. The integration is operated at language level between neural networks and rule languages. The formal mo del that allow the integration is based on constraint logic programming and provide an integrated framework to represent and pro cess heterogeneous knowledge. In order to achieve this we de ne a new language that allow to express and mo del in a natural and intuitive way the above issues together with the operational semantics.
Date Issued
1995-01-01
Citation
Departmental Technical Report: 95/19, 1995, pp.1-15
Publisher
Department of Computing, Imperial College London
Start Page
1
End Page
15
Journal / Book Title
Departmental Technical Report: 95/19
Copyright Statement
© 1995 The Author(s). This report is available open access under a CC-BY-NC-ND (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
Publication Status
Published