a combination of data structures and interpretive procedures that if used in the right way in a computer program will lead to knowledgeable behavior by creating, recording, deleting and replacing symbols that encode explicit and imbedded implicit information.

The study of the representation of knowledge in machine understandable form. See Ontology and http://www.jfsowa.com/.

The term used in artificial intelligence to cover the study of formalisms which model human forms of knowledge. See also Frames, Predicate Calculus/Predicate Logic, Production Systems, Scripts, Semantic Networks.

( KR) Most commonly used to refer to representations intended for processing by modern computers, and particularly for representations consisting of explicit objects.

Knowledge representation is an issue that arises in both cognitive science and artificial intelligence. In cognitive science it is concerned with how people store and process information. In artificial intelligence (AI) the primary aim is to store knowledge so that programs can process it and achieve the verisimilitude of human intelligence.