Architectures :: Frame based

For an architecture to be frame-based means that it is organized around the representation of all of its knowledge in frames. This is important because it allows a uniform representation of knowledge. In a frame based system, all knowledge is represented as slots of some concept which describe properties of that concept. Frame based architectures mainatin world knowledge, redialy incorporate meta level knowledge, and are usually limited to monotonicity reasoning abilities. The prototypical frame based system is Theo by (Mitchel et. al.)

For an architecture not to be frame-based does not imply that it does not represent it's knowledge in a non uniform way, but rather that the organization of the architecture is not dependant on this uniform representation.

Frame based Architectures :
Non Frame based Architectures with uniform knowledge representation :
- Prodigy (Minton)
Non Frame based Architectures :

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