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title: "Descriptions as Constraints in Object-Oriented Representation"
authors:
  - "Luc Steels"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/95"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/0095.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1983
pages: "395-396"
track: "Knowledge Representation"
keywords:
---

# Descriptions as Constraints in Object-Oriented Representation

Luc Steels

*Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 395-396.

## 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.