2011AIChp2-Knowledge repsentation(by XCF).ppt

Importance of Good Notations “By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race. Before the introduction of the Arabic notation, multiplication was difficult, and the division even of integers called into play the highest mathematical faculties…Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.” Alfred North Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics What’s Knowledge Representation? Knowledge representation is