Path-based rules in object-oriented programming

Conference · Mon Dec 30 23:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:430699

Crawford, J M ^[1]; Dvorak, D; Litman, D; Mishra, A; Patel-Schneider, P F ^[2]

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1. Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, OR (United States)
2. AT&T Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (United States)

Object-oriented programming has recently emerged as one of the most important programming paradigms. While object-oriented programming clearly owes an intellectual debt to AI, it appears to be displacing some AI techniques, such as rule-based programming, from the marketplace. This need not be so as path-based rules-forward-chaining production rules that are restricted to follow pointers between objects-fit into the object-oriented paradigm in a clean and elegant way. The combination of path-based rules and object-oriented programming should be useful in AI applications, and in the more general problem of transferring AI techniques to the larger computer science community.

• OSTI ID: 430699
• Report Number(s): CONF-960876--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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