CHAPTER 8 OBJECT-ORIENTED REPRESENTATION
One property shared by all of the representation methods we have considered so far is that they are flat: Each piece of representation is self-contained and can be understood independently of any other. Recall that when we discussed logical representations in Chapter 3, we observed that information about a given object we might care about could be scattered among any number of seemingly unrelated sentences. With production system rules and the procedures in procedural systems, we have the corresponding problem: Knowledge about a given object or type of object could be scattered around the knowledge base.
As the number of sentences or procedures in a KB grows, it becomes critical to organize them in some ...
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