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Distributed Knowledge Representation in Neural-Symbolic Learning Systems: A Case Study

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This paper shows how neural networks can represent symbolic distributed knowledge, acting as multiagent systems with learning capability (a key feature of neural networks), and applies the approach to the well-known muddy children puzzle.
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Neural-symbolic integration concerns the integration of symbolic and connectionist systems. Distributed knowledge representation is traditionally seen under a purely symbolic perspective. In this paper, we show how neural networks can represent symbolic distributed knowledge, acting as multiagent systems with learning capability (a key feature of neural networks). We then apply our approach to the well-known muddy children puzzle, a problem used as a testbed for distributed knowledge representation formalisms. Finally, we sketch a full solution to this problem by extending our approach to deal with knowledge evolution over time.

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Reasoning About Knowledge

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An Introduction to Modal Logic

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Reasoning About Knowledge

TL;DR: Reasoning about knowledge as discussed by the authors provides a general discussion of approaches to reasoning about knowledge and its applications to distributed systems, artificial intelligence, and game theory, and brings eight years of work by the authors into a cohesive framework for understanding and analyzing knowledge that is intuitive, mathematically well founded, useful in practice, and widely applicable.
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