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INCOMPLETE KNOWLEDGE [13 records]

Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Mathematics
  • Computer Programs and Programming
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

... an incremental algorithm operates on incomplete knowledge, not only because it uses a local context but also because the available knowledge changes over time. In particular, new information is integrated into the available knowledge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques informatiques
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A statement about an entity of the real or conceptual world, whose validity is measured by a certainty factor.

OBS

Beliefs help derive a conclusion from incomplete knowledge.

OBS

belief: designation and definition standardized by ISO in collaboration with the International Electrotechnical Commission.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Énoncé relatif à une entité du monde réel ou conceptuel, dont la validité est caractérisée par un facteur de certitude.

OBS

Les croyances permettent de tirer une conclusion à partir de connaissances incomplètes.

OBS

croyance : désignation et définition normalisées par l'ISO en collaboration avec la Commission électrotechnique internationale.

Spanish

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Record 3 - external organization data 2014-09-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology Vocabulary
Universal entry(ies)
28.02.02 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

<artificial intelligence> statement about an entity of the real or conceptual world, whose validity is measured by a certainty factor

OBS

Beliefs help derive a conclusion from incomplete knowledge.

OBS

A belief having a high certainty factor may be considered as a fact.

OBS

belief: term and definition standardized by ISO/IEC [ISO/IEC 2382-28:1995].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - ISO/CEI JTC 1 Vocabulaire des technologies de l'information
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
28.02.02 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

<intelligence artificielle> énoncé relatif à une entité du monde réel ou conceptuel, dont la validité est caractérisée par un facteur de certitude

OBS

Les croyances permettent de tirer une conclusion à partir de connaissances incomplètes.

OBS

Une croyance possédant un haut facteur de certitude peut être considérée comme un fait.

OBS

croyance : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO/CEI [ISO/IEC 2382-28:1995].

Spanish

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Record 4 2005-07-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Continuing Education
DEF

A form of inverse induction while making inferences from incomplete knowledge. It assumes a relatively even distribution of information access the database.

CONT

In the structure of SHCOLAR's semantic network(Carbonell 1970) there are already facilities to support the lack-of-knowledge strategy. The concept hierarchy can be used to collect objects similar to the original one : they must be its siblings with respect to a common superordinate. The depth of knowledge can be measured by the numerical relevance tags associated with information. For example, if oil is not on the list of Uruguay's products, this does not necessarily imply that Uruguay does not produce oil at all since the database may be incomplete. Furthermore, there is no list of goods that a country does not produce. But, if oil is mentioned for another country say Venezuela-with a relevance-tag value at which something else is known for Uruguay, this is an induction that oil is not produced in Uruguay.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Éducation permanente

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inteligencia artificial
  • Educación permanente
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Record 5 2004-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education Theory and Methods
  • Training of Personnel
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

A learning method which involves creating a new concept by modifying the definition of a known concept.

OBS

A large body of causal knowledge is used to fill out incomplete descriptions and guide analogical inference.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Internet et télématique
DEF

Forme d'apprentissage qui exige de celui qui apprend de faire des déductions à partir de l'information qui lui arrive. Elle implique la reconnaissance d'une similitude avec une structure de connaissance en mémoire et des opérations d'abstraction et de spécialisation.

CONT

[...] l'apprentissage par analogie repose sur le transfert d'informations que réalise le système lorsqu'il découvre que la situation nouvelle partage certaines caractéristiques avec des situations connues.

CONT

L'apprentissage par analogie consiste à reconnaître des similarités entre le concept à apprendre (ou analogue cible) et un concept connu (ou analogue source), et à déterminer quelles caractéristiques pertinentes peuvent être transférées de l'analogue source vers l'analogue cible.

OBS

Bien qu'il s'agisse d'une forme d'apprentissage fréquente chez l'être humain et que les spécialistes en «Machine Learning» lui consacrent de plus en plus d'attention cette stratégie n'a pas, à notre connaissance, été utilisée par des tutoriels intelligents.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Teorías y métodos pedagógicos
  • Capacitación del personal
  • Inteligencia artificial
  • Internet y telemática
DEF

Forma de aprendizaje que consiste en adquirir nuevos factores o habilidades mediante la transformación y aumento del conocimiento existente que tiene una fuerte similitud con el nuevo concepto o habilidad deseado en una forma efectivamente útil en la nueva situación.

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Record 6 1995-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Continuing Education
CONT

As an intelligent programming tutor, BIP is incomplete. The only form of advice it can give the student consists of hints stored with the different tasks, since it has no knowledge of design, coding or debugging. Furthermore, its feedback to the student is limited by its inability to diagnose logical errors. When a program has been completed, BIP simply tests it on a set of input/output pairs without any analysis of the algorithm, as do systems presented in Chapter 11. After a syntactic match on keywords has revealed the use or absence of certain constructs designated as necessary or forbidden for the task, the student is merely informed about language constructs that should or shouldn’t have been used.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Éducation permanente

Spanish

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Record 7 1994-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Continuing Education
CONT

... incorrect or suboptimal behavior does not always proceed from incomplete knowledge. It can also be due to incorrect versions of the target knowledge.

CONT

... a central obstacle to intelligent tutoring is the fact that different learners may acquire different representations of the target knowledge.

OBS

As opposed to "initial knowledge."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Éducation permanente
DEF

Connaissance que l'étudiant est censé maîtriser à la suite d'une session EIAO.

Spanish

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Record 8 1994-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

Unlike computers, students become inventive when their actions are blocked by a situation their current knowledge has not prepared them to handle. When incomplete knowledge leads to an impasse, that is, a point where a necessary action violates a constraint, they attempt a repair, that is, a local piece of problem solving that will allow them to continue in spite of the impasse.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Dans un espace d'états, position qui n'est pas une solution mais à partir de laquelle aucun déplacement ne permet d'améliorer les choses. Pour s'en sortir, il faut changer de parcours. Lorsque tous les chemins conduisent à une impasse, c'est une indication qu'il n'existe pas de solution.

Spanish

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Record 9 1991-06-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Pollution
  • Pollutants
  • Climatology
CONT

Possible future changes of climate due to anthropogenic aerosols. In view of the many ways in which the global aerosol distribution may change and our incomplete knowledge about the geographical distribution of possible past changes, projections of future impacts on climate are not possible except in very general terms.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pollution de l'air
  • Agents de pollution
  • Climatologie
OBS

En ce qui concerne les aérosols troposphériques, les difficultés pour évaluer les impacts proviennent surtout de la distribution spatiale des particules. Celle-ci est géographiquement très variable, car les activités humaines et naturelles émettent des particules dont le temps de résidence est généralement faible dans la troposphère (de quelques jours à un mois). Par ailleurs l'on dispose de peu de données sur le contenu de la troposphère en aérosols dans les zones isolées.

Spanish

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Record 10 1989-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Continuing Education
DEF

An important class of inferences dealing with open sets(i. e. incomplete knowledge). Contradiction is commonly used by people to make negative inferences. Computationally, some inferences by contradiction can be achieved by the addition of two types of markers in a semantic net. First, a pair of relations can be marked as being mutually exclusive(a given object cannot be a city and a river, though it can be a city and a capital). Secondly, exhaustive sets can be marked as closed. This ensures that properties of subparts collectively imply the same properties for the whole(if no country on a continent is known to produce sugar, then it can be inferred that the continent does not produce sugar, provided that the available set of its countries is marked as closed).

OBS

See also inference by assumption, inverse induction, lack-of-knowledge strategy, functional analysis.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Éducation permanente
OBS

Voir aussi réseau sémantique.

Spanish

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Record 11 1989-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Continuing Education
CONT

In making inference from incomplete knowledge, one can also use a form of inverse induction that Carbonell and Collins call the lack-of-knowledge strategy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Éducation permanente
OBS

Induction : opération mentale qui consiste à remonter des faits à la loi, de cas données (propositions inductrices) le plus souvent singuliers ou spéciaux, à une proposition plus générale.

Spanish

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Record 12 1989-06-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Continuing Education
DEF

A local piece of problem solving that will allow the student to continue in spite of an impasse.

CONT

Unlike computers, students become inventive when their actions are blocked by a situation their current knowledge has not prepared them to handle. When incomplete knowledge leads to an impasse, that is a point where a necessary action violates a constraint, they attempt a repair.

OBS

See also remediation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Éducation permanente
DEF

Autocorrection des erreurs chez l'apprenant. Terme proposé par Yves Kodratoff de préférence à reprise, redressement et correction.

Spanish

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Record 13 1986-11-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

Reasoning in the presence of incomplete knowledge plays an important role in many AI expert systems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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