Inheritance Hierarchies in Knowledge Representation and Programming Languages
Published on 23. January 1991
Book
Hardback
326 pages
978-0-471-92741-9 (ISBN)
Description
Focusing on the fundamental aspects of reasoning about hierarchies, this book brings together contributions from the research in knowledge representation, object-oriented programming languages and data models, theory of types and parallel computing with the main goal of gaining a deeper understanding of the similarities and differences of the problems and proposed solutions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
93 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 70 mm
Width: 50 mm
Weight
670 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-92741-9 (9780471927419)
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Content
What's inheritance got to do with knowledge representation?, P.F.Patel-Schneider; a credulous theory of mixed inheritance, J.Horty; ananalysis of taxonomic reasoning, G.Attardi; a lattice based model for inheritance reasoning, L.Padgham; computing sceptical inheritance, L.A.Stein; the tractability of path-based inheritance, B.Selman and H.J.Levesque; careful closure of inheritance networks, M.Lenzerini; pushing the terminological barrier, E.Decio et al; inheritance hierarchies in an environment for knowledge based programming research, V.Jonckers; inheritance in object oriented programming languages, A.Snyder; a behavioural approach to subtyping in object oriented programming languages, P.America; types and subtypes as partial equivalence relations, G.Ghelli and R.Orsini; a unified methodology for object oriented programming, L.A.Stein; masking and conflicts or to inherit is not to own!, R.Ducournau and M.Habib; inheritance mechanisms in the OBJLOG language - multiple selective and multiple vertical with points of view, P.Dugerdil; inheritance in blackboard architectures, A.Brogi et al; inheritance as a combination of horn clause theories, P.Mello; inheritance in logic programming knowledge bases, T.Finin and J.McGuire.