Knowledge Types

• descriptive - assertions/propositional
• procedural - specifies what to do and when
• contextual - when to use the knowledge
• temporal - dealing with time
• inferential - not explicitly stated in a knowledge base, but could be derived/inferred by applying inferential/reasoning
• inherited - inferred via inheritance reasoning mechanism
• acquired - knowledge that is gathered either automatically by a K acquisition system or by a K engineer. acquired K must be merged with existing KB