A Learning Program System (ALPS)

Goal.

   The ALPS project is to develop a learning program to learn knowledge.
It uses the learned knowledge to answer questions and solve problems.

Premise.

   Building block -- complex knowledge is composed of simpler knowledge.

Strategy.

   Focus on simple real-world knowledge
   -- avoid unnecessary complexity
   -- simpler knowledge learned lead to more common sense knowledge

Approaches.

   Knowledge abstraction
   -- identify structure, composition, relationships

Methodology.

   Object-Oriented Paradigm
   -- distributed, iterative, incremental development

Problems.

   definition       method 
 communication     authenticity

Publications

Students