A distributed connectionist production system

A Distributed Connectionist Production System

DCPS is a connectionist production system interpreter that uses distributed representations. As a connectionist model it consists of many simple, richly interconnected neuron-like computing units that cooperate to solve problems in parallel. One motivation far constructing DCPS was to demonstrate that connectionist models ore copable of representing and using explicit rules. A second motivation...

Connectionist Reasoning System using Coarse-coded Distributed Representations

In this paper, we describe a model for reasoning using forward chaining for predicate logic rules and facts with coarse-coded distributed representations for instantiated predicates in a connectionist frame work. Distributed representations are known to give advantages of good generalization, error correction and graceful degradation of performance under noise conditions. The system supports us...

Connectionist Uniication with a Distributed Representation

This paper presents a connectionist uniication strategy for a Prolog-system. The uniication strategy utilizes a backprop-net (bp-net) and a distributed connectionist representation. The most-general-uniier is computed by the connectionist heuristic in constant time. To keep the system also eecient in space the distributed representation was choosen. It is possible to show that this representati...

A distributed connectionist representation for concept structures

We describe a representation for frame-like concept structures in a neural network called DUCS. Slot names and slot fillers are diffuse patterns of activation spread over a collection of units. Our choice of a distributed representation gives rise to certain useful properties not shared by conventional frame systems. One of these is the ability to encode fine semantic distinctions as subtle var...

A Distributed Platform for Symbolic{connectionist Interoperation