Mental Events and Mental Objects

Mental Events and Mental Objects

The agents we have constructed so far have beliefs and can deduce new beliefs. Yet none of them has any knowledge about beliefs or about deduction. Knowledge about one’s own knowledge and reasoning processes…
Categories and Objects

Categories and Objects

categories are an important aspect of general knowledge reasoning strict kind categories - an object is a triangle iff it is a polygon with 3 sidesnatural kind categories - have no clear cut…
Ontological Engineering

Ontological Engineering

ontological engineering - representing abstract concepts (e.g. actions, time, physical objects, and beliefsupper ontology - a general framework of concepts have to handle exceptions and uncertainty 2 major characteristics of general-purpose ontologies…
Resolution

Resolution

Resolution is a theorem proving technique that proceeds by building refutation proofs, i.e., proofs by contradictions. It was invented by a Mathematician John Alan Robinson in the year 1965. Resolution…
Backward Chaining

Backward Chaining

Backward-chaining is also known as a backward deduction or backward reasoning method when using an inference engine. A backward chaining algorithm is a form of reasoning, which starts with the…
Forward Chaining in AI

Forward Chaining in AI

In artificial intelligence, forward and backward chaining is one of the important topics, but before understanding forward and backward chaining lets first understand that from where these two terms came.…
What is Unification?

What is Unification?

Unification is a process of making two different logical atomic expressions identical by finding a substitution. Unification depends on the substitution process. It takes two literals as input and makes…
Prolog In Artificial Intelligence

Prolog In Artificial Intelligence

Introduction : Prolog is a logic programming language. It has important role in artificial intelligence. Unlike many other programming languages, Prolog is intended primarily as a declarative programming language. In prolog, logic…