{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Descriptions as Constraints in Object-Oriented Representation","authors":[{"name":"Luc Steels","slug":"luc-steels","given":"Luc","family":"Steels","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"A motivation is given to introduce indefinite descriptions . Parts of a description language are presented . Mechanisms for the interpretation of indefinite descriptions are briefly discussed . KEYWORDS : Knowledge representation, AI programming languages, object-oriented systems , description languages, reasoning, constraint propagation.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/95","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/0095.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/95.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/bibtex/95","volume":{"slug":"1983","title":"Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1983","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/","year":1983,"location":"Karlsruhe, West Germany","dates":"","editors":"Alan Bundy","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Knowledge Representation","track":"Knowledge Representation","number":95,"pages":{"first":395,"last":396},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}