Re: Knowledge Representation Problem

phayes@cs.uiuc.edu (Pat Hayes)
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Hi John

Thats a nice problem. 

Is the goal to simply produce a rational conceptual organisation sufficient
to help a human programmer implement something, or to formalize the problem
and the relevant background assumptions in enough detail to be able to draw
some valid conclusions about it?

Pat


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