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Record 1 1989-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A hierarchy where each class has at most one immediate superclass.

OBS

When knowledge is represented in a hierarchy, the characteristics of superordinate objects are inherited by subordinate objects. Thus, if we determine that an auto loan is a type of loan then we know that the credit check procedures that apply to all loans apply to auto loans.

CONT

When abstractions organized by inclusion relations form a tree, the result is known as a taxonomic hierarchy or in Ai, an inheritance hierarchy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Hiérarchie de propriétés transmises entre classes et sous-classes d'objets ou de concepts.

OBS

Réseau conceptuel basé sur l'héritage, ou la transmission des propriétés des concepts plus généraux vers les concepts plus spécialisés.

Spanish

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