An Operational Semantics for Knowledge Bases

Abstract

The standard approach in AI to knowledge representation isto represent an agent's knowledge symbolically as a collection of formulas, which we can view as a knowledge base. An agent is then said to know a fact if it is provable from the formulas in his knowledge base. Halpern and Vardi advocateda model-theoretic approach to knowledge representation. In this approach, the key step is representing the agent's knowl-edge using an appropriate semantic model. Here, we model knowledge bases operationally as multi-agent systems. Our results show that this approach offers significant advantages.

Cite

Text

Fagin et al. "An Operational Semantics for Knowledge Bases." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1994.

Markdown

[Fagin et al. "An Operational Semantics for Knowledge Bases." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1994.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1994/fagin1994aaai-operational/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{fagin1994aaai-operational,
  title     = {{An Operational Semantics for Knowledge Bases}},
  author    = {Fagin, Ronald and Halpern, Joseph Y. and Moses, Yoram and Vardi, Moshe Y.},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1994},
  pages     = {1142-1147},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1994/fagin1994aaai-operational/}
}