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Peter D. Karp Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025 pkarp@ai.sri.com

Thomas Gruber Knowledge Systems Laboratory Stanford University 701 Welch Rd, Bldg C Palo Alto, CA 94304 gruber@hpp.stanford.edu

• Contents
• Introduction
  • The Need For a Standard FRS Access Library
  • The Proposed Solution
  • Design Objectives
  • On Terminology
• A Reference Model of Frame Representation Primitives
  • Frames
  • Slots
  • Knowledge bases
  • Classes and instances
  • Slot Value Inheritance and Defaults
  • The number of values in a slot or facet
  • Default Values
  • Constraints and Consistency
  • Facets
  • Slot Value Annotations
  • FRS Behaviors
  • Standard Frame, Slot, and Facet Names
    * Standard Frame Names
    * Standard Slots
    * Standard Facets
• The Generic Frame Protocol
  • Operations on Frames
    * Operations on Classes
    * Operations on Instances
  • Slot-Access Functions
    * Slot Enumeration
    * Operations on Slot Values
  • Facet Functions
  • Knowledge Base Operations
  • Constraint-Checking
• The Knowledge-Base Behaviors
  • Value Constraint Checking
  • Facets
  • Slot-Value Annotations
  • Defaults
  • Class Slot Types
  • Test Function
  • Collection-Types
  • Operations on Behaviors
• User Guide to the GFP Implementation
  • Loading and Compiling GFP
  • Error Processing
  • Miscellaneous
• The GFP Back Ends
  • The LOOM Back End
  • The Ontolingua Back End
  • The THEO Back End
  • The SIPE Back End
• Guide to the Back-End Implementor
  • Mandatory, Optional, and Other Operations
    * Mandatory Methods
    * Optional Methods
    * Functions and Macros
  • Iterator Expansion
  • Compilation Options
    * :GFP-frame-coersion
    * :monitor-GFP
    * :GFP-record-modifications
    * Definition of GFP Operators
• References
• Index
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