TY - JOUR T1 - Deductive Inference in The Context of The Dialogue Process AU - , Igor A. Chimir AU - , Waheeb A. Abu-Dawwas JO - Asian Journal of Information Technology VL - 5 IS - 3 SP - 263 EP - 271 PY - 2006 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1682-3915 DO - ajit.2006.263.271 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ajit.2006.263.271 KW - Question-answering dialogue KW -logic of questions and answers KW -DKB KW -rule-based system AB - This study is devoted to the investigation of a community between the dialogue process and the process of deductive inference. Attention is focused on the goal-oriented interactive process between two agents (active and reactive) involving into a step-by-step question-answering dialogue, which is considering as an activity directed on solving certain problem. A key element of the architecture of Dialogue Problem Solver is Dialogue Knowledge Base (DKB). The paper demonstrates how an inference process of the classical rule-based systems can be emulated by navigation within DKB. Some positive features of such emulation are discussed. Final section represents a formal theory of the DKB structure from the inference process point of view. In conclusion the idea of a knowledge base agent with distributed architecture is discussed. ER -