Conclusion of Lecture 11

• To a large degree, the most important problem in software development is knowledge representation.
• Logic, rules, cases and frames are good ways to represent knowledge.
• Semantic nets are particularly powerful and useful.
• XML is a form of KR.
• The reading for this week was Russell and Norvig 7.0-7.3, and 12.0-12.2.
• The reading for next week is the software testing wiki. You might also want to read Extreme Programming: a Gentle Introduction or the extreme programming wiki.