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BACK to Consistency and Incompleteness

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The knowledge representation system BACK, a descendant of the ‘New Implementation of SRL’, is described focussing on the problems of how to achieve a consistent knowledge base and how to cope with incomplete knowledge [1].

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von Luck, K., Nebel, B., Peltason, C., Schmiedel, A. (1986). BACK to Consistency and Incompleteness. In: Stoyan, H. (eds) GWAI-85. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 118. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71145-9_21

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