Jaime G. Carbonell
ABSTRACT
Type hierarchies abound in Artificial Intelligence, Data Bases and Programming Languages. Although their size, use and complexity differs, all share a central inference mechanism: Inheritance of information, their raison d'etre. This paper discusses various types of type hierarchies and inheritance mechanisms, concluding with a proposed generalized inheritance mapping approach to resolve issues of lateral and upward inheritance (to augment the traditional downward approach), as well as default reasoning and limited non-monotonic inference.
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Default reasoning and inheritance mechanisms on type hierarchies
Proceedings of the workshop on Data abstraction, databases and conceptual modellingType hierarchies abound in Artificial Intelligence, Data Bases and Programming Languages. Although their size, use and complexity differs, all share a central inference mechanism: Inheritance of information, their raison d'etre. This paper discusses ...
Default reasoning and inheritance mechanisms on type hierarchies
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Default reasoning and inheritance mechanisms on type hierarchies
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