Connectionism, Systematicity, and the Frame Problem

Minds and Machines

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 161-179

  Haselager, W F G ^a   Van Rappard, J F H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Connectionism; Distributed representation; Frame problem; Systematicity

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA PROCESSING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONNECTIONISM; FRAME PROBLEM; SYSTEMATICITY;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032203938     PISSN: 09246495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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