Week #2

Question 1

What are the seven principles of CS7637?

Answer 1

1. KBAI agents represent and organize knowledge into knowledge structures to guide and support reasoning.
2. Learning in KBAI agents is often incremental
3. Reasoning is top-down as well as bottom-up
4. KBAI agents map methods to tasks
5. KBAI agents use heuristics to find solutions that are good enough, though not necessarily optimal
6. KBAI agents make use of recurring patterns in the problems they solve
7. The architecture of KBAI agents enables learning, reasoning, and memory to support and constrain each other

Question 2

What are the characteristics of a good representation?

Answer 2

1. Make relationships explicit
2. Expose natural constraints
3. Bring objects and relations together
4. Exclude extraneous details
5. Transparent, concise, complete, fast, computable