Efficient frame systems

Abstract

Frame systems occupy an important place among formalisms for computer-based knowledge representation. A common concern about frame systems is that they are not efficient enough. We argue that this is not necessarily true of all possible systems, and that the trade-off between representational power and efficiency has not been fully explored. It is possible, in particular, to design frame systems that retain much of the flexibility while providing excellent performance. Such systems are well suited for applications that need flexible knowledge representation but cannot afford the high performance price.KeywordsKnowledge RepresentationSemantic NetworkDefense Advance Research Project AgencyFrame SystemFunctional InterfaceThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.