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In this paper some points of criticism on Newell’s Knowledge Level Hypothesis are investigated. Among those are: the inability to represent control, the potential computational inadequacy, the lack of predictive power and the non-operational character (the problem of ‘how to build it’). We discuss Sticklen’s Knowledge Level Architecture Hypothesis in which he tries to overcome these problems. On the basis of general arguments as well as specific insights from our KADS knowledge level modelling approach we reject the points of criticism. We also argue that the extension Sticklen proposes is not necessary and partly also unwanted.
The research reported here was carried out in the course of the REFLECT project. This project is partially funded by the Esprit Basic Research Programme of the Commission of the European Communities as project number 3178. The partners in this project are the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), the Netherlands Energy Research Foundation ECN (Petten, The Netherlands), the National German Research Centre for Computer Science GMD (St. Augustin, West-Germany) and BSR Consulting (Munich, West-Germany).
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Schreiber, G., Akkermans, H., Wielinga, B. (1991). On Problems with the Knowledge Level Perspective. In: Steels, L., Smith, B. (eds) AISB91. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1852-7_19
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