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KRISYS - A MULTI-LAYERED PROTOTYPE KBMS SUPPORTING KNOWLEDGE INDEPENDENCE

Nelson M. Mattos

University of Kaiserslautern
P.O. Box 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany
e-mail: haerder@informatik.uni-kl.de

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Abstract:

This paper discusses architectural issues of Knowledge Base Management Systems and describes the architecture of KRISYS, a system whose goal is the effective and efficient management of large, shared knowledge bases. Focal points are primarily the design decisions and the system's features: knowledge independence, object-orientation, mechanisms for knowledge organization, data-driven computation, heritance mechanisms, reasoning facilities, etc. Naturally, some of these issues which we have been combining to use in a KBMS context, are similar to approaches developed in different isolated projects. Instead of giving a detailed comparison of our approaches and those of other projects, we show in this paper how they can be architecturally combined to build realistic KBMS.

Key words:

AI architectures, Knowledge Base Management Systems, Database support for Knowledge-Based Systems

Published in Proc. Int. Computer Science Conf. - Artificial intelligence: Theory and Applications, Hongkong, 1988, pp. 31-38.