Episodic Knowledge
Two particular types of knowledge --
procedural and declarative -- have been used extensively in the
design and development of cognitive architectures. However, neither
of these types of knowledge characterize the knowledge that
humans use to remember events (such as, for example, graduations,
birthday parties, and weddings). Such remembrances are called
episodic knowledge. Since this knowledge is, by definition,
experiential, it must learned by the
agent rather than pre-encoded (of course, it is possible to
conceive of episodic knowledge being pre-encoded but, once running,
additions to the episodic memory would then be learned). This
knowledge can confer the capability to perform protracted tasks or to
answer queries about temporal relationships and to utilize temporal
relationships.
Episodic knowledge is a key feature of the
Homer architecture.
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