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- Title
Knowledge-Based Systems: A Qualitative Formalism.
- Authors
Brent Jr, Edward E.
- Abstract
This paper examines knowledge-based systems (KBS's) and considers how they may be applied in the social sciences. KBS's are programs which use artificial intelligence techniques to solve complex problems. Characteristics of KBS's are illustrated with an example knowledge-based program ("CN-ACT") written in PROLOG which uses Goffman's dramaturgical model to analyze social interaction. The paper argues that KBS's offer a qualitative formalism capable of being applied to concepts and phenomena which have been beyond the scope of traditional mathematical models. KBS's can create explicit, reproducible, logically powerful knowledge systems while avoiding the Procrustean bed of mathematical formalism.
- Subjects
ARTIFICIAL intelligence; LOGIC programming languages; LOGIC machines; SELF-organizing systems; SOCIAL psychology; MATHEMATICAL statistics
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1986, Vol 9, Issue 3, p256
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00988401