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Knowledge representation and reasoning aims at designing computer systems that reason about a machine-interpretable representation of the world. Knowledge-based systems have a computational model of some domain of interest in which symbols serve as surrogates for real world domain artefacts, such as physical objects, events, relationships, etc. [1]. The domain of interest can cover any part of the real world or any hypothetical system about which one desires to represent knowledge for com–putational purposes. A knowledge-based system maintains a knowledge base, which stores the symbols of the computational model in the form of statements about the domain, and it performs reasoning by manipulating these symbols. Applications can base their decisions on answers to domain-relevant questions posed to a knowledge base.
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Grimm, S. (2009). Knowledge Representation and Ontologies. In: Gaber, M. (eds) Scientific Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02788-8_6
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