Is Knowledge Maintenance an Adequate Response to the Challenge of Situated Cognition for Symbolic Knowledge Based Systems?
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Situated cognition (SC) and knowledge maintenance are intimately connected. We say that SC motivates research into KM and KM assess SC. If knowledge is situated, then a symbolic KB will require modiica-tion as the situation changes. However, if we could demonstrate that the 5 process of change dictated by SC is tamed via current KM tools, then the case for concerning ourselves with SC becomes weak. We argue here that (i) there is enough evidence to support the view that SC is a very strong motivation for KM; but (ii) there is not enough evidence to support the view that KM has tamed the problem of SC. That is, the current gener-10 ation of KM tools may be an inadequate response to the challenge of SC for symbolic knowledge based systems.
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