Theories and uses of context in knowledge representation and reasoning

Bouquet, Paolo and Ghidini, Chiara and Giunchiglia, Fausto and Blanzieri, Enrico (2001) Theories and uses of context in knowledge representation and reasoning. UNSPECIFIED.

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    Abstract

    This paper discusses the uses of context in knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR). We propose to partition the theories of context brought forward in KRR into two main classes, which we call divide-and-conquer and compose-and-conquer. We argue that this partition provides a possible explanation of why in KRR context is used to solve different types of problems, or to address the same problems from very different perspectives. The problems we use to illustrate this point are the problem of generality, the formalization of propositional attitudes, knowledge and data integration.

    Item Type: Departmental Technical Report
    Department or Research center: Information Engineering and Computer Science
    Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA075 Electronic computers. Computer science
    Additional Information: published as invited paper in Journal of Pragmatics - Special Issue on Context, Elsevier Science.
    Report Number: DIT-02-010
    Repository staff approval on: 11 Mar 2003

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