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title: "The Architecture of Coherent Information System: A General Problem Solving System"
authors:
  - "Chitoor V. Srinivasan"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1973/77"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1973/0077.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1973
pages: "618-627"
track: "General Problem Solving"
keywords:
---

# The Architecture of Coherent Information System: A General Problem Solving System

Chitoor V. Srinivasan

*Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 618-627.

## Abstract

This paper discusses the architecture of a metasystem, which can be used to generate intelligent information systems for different domains of discourse. It points out the kinds of knowledge accepted by the system, and the way the knowledge is used to do nontrivial problem solving. The organization of the system makes it possible for it to function in the context of a large and expanding data base. The meta-system provides a basis for the definition of the concept of machine understanding in terms of the models that the machine can build in a domain, and the way it can use the models.