@techreport{heckerman1988the, author = {Heckerman, David and Horvitz, Eric}, title = {The Myth of Modularity in Rule-Based Systems for Reasoning with Uncertainty}, year = {1988}, month = {January}, abstract = {In this paper, we examine the concept of modularity, an often cited advantage of the rule-based representation methodology. We argue that the notion of modularity consists of two distinct concepts which we call syntactic modularity and semantic modularity.}, url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/myth-modularity-rule-based-systems-reasoning-uncertainty/}, pages = {23-34}, edition = {Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 2}, number = {UAI-P-1986-PG-115-122}, }