Adaptive system with interfaces to the digital world and the environment that can perceive things by itself, can relate them to contexts and understand them, can draw conclusions and learn, all in order to solve and master tasks.

• cognition

Understanding data and information and generating new data, information as well as new knowledge.

• cognitive system

ETSI GR ENI 004 process of understanding data and information and producing new data, information and knowledge

A cognitive architecture is a system that simulates human thought and human thinking and decision-making.

ETSI GR ENI 004 system that learns, reasons, and makes decisions in a manner resembling that of a human mind

NOTE: Specifically, the learning, reasoning, and decision-making is performed using software that makes hypotheses and proves or disproves them using non-imperative mechanisms that typically involve constructing new knowledge dynamically during the decision-making process.