Foundations of Building Intelligent Artifacts: Chapter 10

Chapter 10
Knowledge structures

After this chapter you should be able to

Explain the concepts "knowledge structure" and "knowledge space", and give examples for each,
Find the knowledge structure derived from an expert's opinion.
Find the basis of a knowledge space, and explain its connection to the complexity of knowledge spaces,
Explain the term "prerequisite", and draw the prerequisite diagram derived from an expert's opinion.
Explain the concepts "skill function" and "problem function" and their connection.
Find the knowledge structure given by a problem function.

Key words:	Knowledge structure, knowledge space, prerequisite diagram, basis, expert query, problem function, skill function

Chapter: