Fast qualitative reasoning about categories in conceptual spaces

  • Authors:
  • Ickjai Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information Technology, James Cook University, Douglas Campus, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Design and application of hybrid intelligent systems
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Categorization is a central task in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. Efficient reasoning about categories is becoming of great importance as intelligent agents are required to perform complex tasks in data-rich environments. Gärdenfors and Williams [6] introduce a robust framework for categorization and reasoning about categories within conceptual spaces. This paper extends their work and presents a number of efficient reasoning properties that greatly reduce the search space resulting in fast derivation of reasoning about categories.