Approaches

Symbolic Processing Approaches

• Physical symbol system hypothesis
  • A machine that can manipulate symbolic data, rearrange lists of symbols, replace some symbols, etc.
• Logical operations
  • Represent knowledge about a problem domain by declarative sentences
  • Logical reasoning to deduce consequences of knowledge
• Top-down design
  • Knowledge level
  • Symbol level
  • Implementation level

Subsymbolic Processing Approaches

• Bottom-up style
• Animate approach
• Training/learning