Complete World Knowledge

Sometimes an agent knows all possibly relevant information about its domain. In this case, learning is not required for domain understanding and the behavior of the system can be precoded, dependent on perceptions of course.

Associated with these environments is the closed world assumption, under which any fact not known to the agent can be taken to be false. This is similar to complete world knowledge, in that the agent knows everything that is true about its domain. This assumption greatly simplifies declarative representation tasks.


The following architectures make the assumption that complete world knowledge is available to the agent:
The following architectures explicitly avoid making this assumption:
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