Construct · 1 fields · 1 citations

closed world assumption: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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Knowledge representation

the convention that any atomic fact not known to be true in a database is taken to be false.

In knowledge representation, closed world assumption refers to the convention that any atomic fact not known to be true in a database is taken to be false. This meaning comes from Reiter (1978) in Logic and Data Bases.[1]

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closed3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs convention1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct knowledge6 fields · 12 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Reiter, R. (1978). On Closed World Data Bases. In Logic and Data Bases (pp. 55-76). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3384-5_3

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