ARLO: Another Representation Language Offer

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Title: en_US ARLO: Another Representation Language Offer
Creator: en_US Haase, Kenneth W., Jr.
Date: 2004-10-20T20:02:41Z
Date Available: 2004-10-20T20:02:41Z
Date Issued: en_US 1986-10-01
Identifier: en_US AITR-901
uri: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6855
Abstract: en_US This paper describes ARLO, a representation language loosely modelled after Greiner and Lenant's RLL-1. ARLO is a structure-based representation language for describing structure-based representation languages, including itself. A given representation language is specified in ARLO by a collection of structures describing how its descriptions are interpreted, defaulted, and verified. This high level description is compiles into lisp code and ARLO structures whose interpretation fulfills the specified semantics of the representation. In addition, ARLO itself- as a representation language for expressing and compiling partial and complete language specifications- is described and interpreted in the same manner as the language it describes and implements. This self-description can be extended of modified to expand or alter the expressive power of ARLO's initial configuration. Languages which describe themselves like ARLO- provide powerful mediums for systems which perform automatic self-modification, optimization, debugging, or documentation. AI systems implemented in such a self-descriptive language can reflect on their own capabilities and limitations, applying general learning and problem solving strategies to enlarge or alleviate them.
Extent: en_US 95 p.; 13247756 bytes; 4867930 bytes
Format: application/postscript; application/pdf
Language: en_US
Relation: en_US AITR-901
Subject: en_US knowledge representation; en_US representation languages; en_US smeta-representation; en_US reflection; en_US artificial intelligence; en_US AIslanguages; en_US RLL

Item sets: AI Technical Reports (1964 - 2004)