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title: "The Design Of A System For Designing Knowledge Representation Systems"
authors:
  - "James L. Weiner"
  - "Martha Stone Palmer"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/56"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0056.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1981
pages: "277-281"
track: "Nowledge Representation"
keywords:
---

# The Design Of A System For Designing Knowledge Representation Systems

James L. Weiner, Martha Stone Palmer

*Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 277-281.

## Abstract

The use of abstract data types as a basis for designing experimental knowledge representation systems is discussed. Abstract data types are shown to have features in common with several diverse representation formalisms (e.g. semantic networks, frames and KLONE). For example, abstract data types have notions analogous to concept, subconcept and inheritance. The relatively small conceptual distance between abstract data types and knowledge representation formalisms make them an ideal vehicle for implementing such formalisms.