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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 1990
Filed:
Nov. 17, 1988
Tetsuro Muragana, Yokohama, JP;
Hideyuki Tsutsumitake, Yokohama, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A method of inference using frame-based knowledge representation which enable the simultaneous realization of high accuracy and high speed in the process of inference is disclosed. The method includes the steps of accompanying each slot with procedure information which indicates procedure for deriving the slot value of the slot from the other slot values, providing pointer information indicating the slots related to each other by the procedure indicated by the procedure information, accompanying each slot with sign information which indicates the validity of the slot value currently given, deriving the slot value in accordance with the procedure indicated by the procedure information when the slot value is missing and when the slot value is indicated by the accompanying sign information as invalid, changing the indication of the sign information accompanying the slots which are indicated by the pointer information as being related to the slot whose slot value is derived, and caching in the derived slot value. An apparatus for performing this method is also disclosed.