Knowledge representation: declarative knowledge

Tutorial Exercise

In this session we need to clarify the difference between procedural and declarative knowledge, and identify why the latter is so important in issues surrounding knowledge modelling and ontologies.

This week we will also discuss any particular and general problems and observations there are to do with the assignment.

Key terms

• Categories of Knowledge
• Declarative and Procedural Knowledge Representation
• Competence and Performance Models
• The Knowledge Level
• representation
• rules
• tacit knowledge

References

1. Issues in Knowledge Level Modelling, by Walter Van de Velde
2. The Knowledge in Knowledge Management, by Fred Nickols
3. Knowledge, Knowledge Work and Organizations: An Overview and Interpretation, Blackler, F., 1995, Organizational Studies, 16(6): 1021-1046.

Lecture

Rob Stephens

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