Constraints and Emergent Knowledge Sample Clauses

Constraints and Emergent Knowledge. ‌ Very often knowledge is emergent and distributed: it changes over time; local knowledge does not cor- respond to global knowledge, and new information is unequally distributed. Additionally, knowledge may be uncertain or not completely available. Each service component can represent knowledge as a set of constraints about himself and the surrounding world: (K1, C1), (K2, C2), . . . , where Ci are the constraints, and Ki are the keys that explain the meaning of the constraints (e.g. distance, temperature, danger level). Constraints are a generic way to represent knowledge, and constraint operations correspond to knowledge operations. As explained in [36] knowledge representation styles can be integrated, and distributed constraint handling techniques can carry on deduction steps and consistency checks, where the local, specific knowledge interacts with the constraint representation via suitable interfaces. Emergent knowledge needs to be discovered and combined with existing knowledge. When a ser- vice component discovers new information, its local knowledge can propagate to become global. The process starts with neighbours by achieving some kind of local consistency, and propagates further.
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