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Knowledge Interchange Format
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knowledge interchange format
en computing artificial intelligence A computer language designed for communicating knowledge between independently running computer programs.
en 1992 Charles J. Petrie Enterprise Integration Modeling: Proceedings of the First International Conference Introduction, page 7 It is exemplified by the Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF)15, part of an approach described in the paper by Tenenbaum.
en 2000 William J. Raynor, Jr. The International Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence http://books.google.com/books?id=td1tue6nHbQC&pg=PA155&dq=%22Knowledge+Interchange+Format%22&hl=en&ei=bh2LTpcpouGYBZKi4PEE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CE8Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22Knowledge%20Interchange%20Format%22&f=false 155 The Knowledge Interchange Format is a proposed standard for the specification and interchange of ontologies.
en 2000 Petr Kotásek; Jaroslav Zendulka An XML Approach to Knowledge Discovery in Databases Tomáš Hruška; Masa-aki Hashimoto Knowledge-Based Software Engineering: Proceedings of the Fourth Joint Conference http://books.google.com/books?id=UaeID1VN-08C&pg=PA148&dq=%22Knowledge+Interchange+Format%22&hl=en&ei=DSCLTvP2Cof-mAWz-LXuBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwATge#v=onepage&q=%22Knowledge%20Interchange%20Format%22&f=false 148 The Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF) is an example of a convenient formalism to describe these ontologies, and XML can serve as an implementation technology in the way similar to that outlined briefly in this paper.
en 2008 Frank van Harmelen; Vladimir Lifschitz; Bruce Porter Handbook Of Knowledge Representation http://books.google.com/books?id=xwBDylHhJhYC&pg=PA217&dq=%22Knowledge+Interchange+Format%22&hl=en&ei=DSCLTvP2Cof-mAWz-LXuBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBDge#v=onepage&q=%22Knowledge%20Interchange%20Format%22&f=false 217 Common Logic Common Logic (CL) evolved from two projects to develop parallel ANSI standards for conceptual graphs and the Knowledge Interchange Format [9].
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