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From: dclark@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM (Dave Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Wanted:  Tools and references on Frames & Semantic Nets
Summary: Frame and Semantic Net Reference
Keywords: Frames, semantic_nets
Message-ID: <568@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM>
Date: 11 Sep 90 12:45:09 GMT
References: <15260@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Reply-To: dclark@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM (Dave Clark)
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The Luger & Stubblefield text is a very good introduction to frames and
semantic nets although its examples may not be as deep as what you're
looking for.

   Luger, George F. and Stubblefield, William A., Artificial Intelligence
   and the Design of Expert Systems, Redwood City: Benjamin Cummings,
   1989, ISBN 0-8053-0139-9.

It has an excellent collection of references for several AI areas.

By the way, although frames and semantic nets are both used for knowledge
representation, they are not exactly the same thing.  Semantic nets
organize knowledge using explicit links between objects in the knowledge
base.  Frames (also, schemas) are single, complex entities that represent
complex situations or objects.  Frames closely resemble records as in
Pascal, and are intimately related to object-oriented systems.

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