{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"BEINGS: Knowledge as Interacting Experts","authors":[{"name":"Douglas B. Lenat","slug":"douglas-b-lenat","given":"Douglas B.","family":"Lenat","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Knowll'dge may be organized as a community of interacting modules. Each module is grantl'd a compll'X structun~. to simulate a particular P.Xpl'rl in some small domain . An l'XIt>nclt>d' analogy is drawn to a group of coopt>rating human ~pecialists. Basf.'d on this, an intt>rnal constraint is imposl'd on thl' modult>s : Tht'ir structure must be standard ovt>r thl' entire community. Some advantagt>s of a uniform fonnalism are thP.rf.'by prt'st>rved . An expt'rimt>ntal community was implrmentf.'d for the task domain of automatir. programrnin~ . It has managed to syntht'size a few mductJVP. mft'rP.nct' LISP programs, nonformally, from spt>ofic restnctP.d dialogues with a human user.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/20","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/0020.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/20.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/bibtex/20","volume":{"slug":"1975","title":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1975","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/","year":1975,"location":"Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR","dates":"","editors":"Patrick Winston and Carl Hewitt","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Representation Of Problems and Knowledge","track":"Representation Of Problems and Knowledge","number":20,"pages":{"first":126,"last":132},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}