Knowledge level

Knowledge level modeling
knowledge relativity
[edit] References
T. Menzies. Applications of Abduction: Knowledge-Level Modeling. November 1996.
A. Newell. The Knowledge Level. Artificial Intelligence, 18(1):87-127, 1982.

The Knowledge Level. By Allen Newell. AAAI Presidential Address, 19 August 1980. AI Magazine 2(2): Summer 1981, 1-20, 33. A classic article describing the differences in viewing computer programs at the symbol level or the knowledge level.

The knowledge level or epistemological level is the most abstract For example, an automated taxi might be said to know that the Golden Gate Bridge links San Francisco and Marin County.

For starters, neural nets don't operate on a knowledge level so they are useless for expert systems. They are also bad at logic problems - chess being an example of this.

knowledge
knowledge base
knowledge-based system
knowledge level
Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language ...

In many applications, the group of prospective uses is nicely defined and the knowledge level can be estimated so that the questions can be presented at a level which corresponds generally to the average user.

See also: Knowledge, Artificial intelligence, AI, Agent, Knowledge engineer