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Executable Knowledge

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Computer-interpretable formalism; Knowledge-based systems

Definition

Knowledge represented in a symbolic formalism that can be understood by human beings and interpreted and executed by a computer program. Executable knowledge allows a computer program to match case data to the knowledge, reason with the knowledge, select recommended actions that are specific to the case data, and deliver them to users. Executed knowledge can be delivered in the form of advice, alerts, and reminders and can be used in decision-support or process management.

Historical Background

Representing knowledge in a computer-interpretable format and reasoning with it so as to support humans in decision-making started to be developed by the artificial intelligence community in the 1970s. According to Newell [1], knowledge is separate from its representation. At the knowledge level, an agent has as parts bodies of knowledge, actions, and goals. An agent processes its knowledge and, behaving through the...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Information Systems, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

    Mor Peleg

  2. Innovation Unit, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain

    Arturo González-Ferrer

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  1. Mor Peleg
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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Clinical Programs, CIGNA Healthcare, Bloomfield, CT, USA

    Vipul Kashyap

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Peleg, M., González-Ferrer, A. (2018). Executable Knowledge. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1356

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