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TY - GEN ID - cogprints463 UR - http://cogprints.org/463/ A1 - Akman, Varol A1 - Ersan, Murat Y1 - 1996/07// N2 - We describe an experimental approach towards implementing a commonsense `micro-theory' for buying and selling. Our prototype system characterizes how intelligent agents hold items and money, how they buy and sell items, and the way money and items are transferred. The ontology of the system includes money (cash, check, credit card), agents (people, organizations), items (movable, real estate, service), barter, and the notions of transfer, loan, buying by installments, profit and loss. KW - commonsense reasoning KW - knowledge-based systems KW - knowledge representation KW - inference KW - naive theories of money KW - buying and selling KW - ontology KW - micro-theory KW - pre-economics knowledge KW - KEE (knowledge engineering environment). TI - Commonsense Aspects of Buying and Selling SP - 327 AV - public EP - 352 ER -