Visual CP Representation of Knowledge
Heather D. Pfeiffer, Roger T. Hartley · 2000
Knowledge can be expressed in two forms: declarative and procedural. Declarative knowledge describes a set of definitions about the world, while procedural knowledge describes the temporal, spatial and constraint aspects applied within these definitions. Expressing declarative knowledge textually is in some ways difficult to follow, whereas it is virtually impossible to capture all aspects of procedural knowledge in this manner. A visual representation of both forms of knowledge is both more desirable and actually more descriptive. Through a visual representation that uses graphs, CP, the two forms can give a balanced view of knowledge while capturing the meaning of both. Keywords: Diagrammatic Languages, Data-Flow Languages, Graph Manipulations, Conceptual Structures and Knowledge Representation 1.