Working Memory

• Working Memory is a Knowledge Representation formalism
• Rule-Based systems vary, but usually WM is a series of facts
• What facts can you have?
• Fruit Example
• Blocks Example
• Wine Example
• Car Diagnosis Example
• Loan Example
• Noughts and Crosses Example
• What other things are ESs appropriate for?
• Clips also has Objects. It permits you to bind facts together (frames).
• Objects also give you inheritence (semantic nets).
• In a rather informal way, WM represents knowledge.