Meta-knowledge and cognition
Avron Barr · International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 1979
In AI knowledge representation schemes, structures that describe other structures are said to represent meta-knowledge, or knowledge about other knowledge. After describing some studies of human behavior that demonstrate people's ability to reason about what they know and about how they reason, we review the use of explicit meta-knowledge in aeveral rescent AI systems. The concept of meta-level knowledge captures Intrinsic, commonplace properties of human cognition that are central to an underatanding of knowledge and intelligence.