and Knowledge-Directed Information Passing (which performs data abstraction).
Notice that by identifying these components as separate types of information
processing activities, and specifying their knowledge and inference requirements, it
makes it possible for each of them to be used in behaviors other than heuristic
classification. For example, Knowledge-Directed Information Passing and Matching
are components in other problem-solving activities such as planning and design.
John McDermott and his co-workers have also begun to emphasize task-specific
analysis. We can use their SALT tool [Marcus 86] as a prototypical example of their
work.
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