CONSISTENCY AT THE CORE OF COMMONSENSE

Donald Perlis

2011

Abstract

This paper argues for a "commonsense core" hypothesis, with emphasis on the issue of consistency in agent knowledge bases. This is part of a long-term research program, in which the hypothesis itself is being gradually refined, in light of various sorts of evidence. The gist is that a commonsense reasoning agent that would otherwise become incapacitated in the presence of inconsistent data may – by means of a modest additional error-handling “core” component – carry out more effective real-time reasoning, and also that there may be cases of interest in which the “core” is more usefully integrated into the knowledge base itself.

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in Harvard Style

Perlis D. (2011). CONSISTENCY AT THE CORE OF COMMONSENSE . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-40-9, pages 578-581. DOI: 10.5220/0003158405780581


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart11,
author={Donald Perlis},
title={CONSISTENCY AT THE CORE OF COMMONSENSE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2011},
pages={578-581},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003158405780581},
isbn={978-989-8425-40-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - CONSISTENCY AT THE CORE OF COMMONSENSE
SN - 978-989-8425-40-9
AU - Perlis D.
PY - 2011
SP - 578
EP - 581
DO - 10.5220/0003158405780581