Knowledge Engineering: Unifying Knowledge Base and Database Design

✍ Scribed by John Debenham (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 475
• Series: Artificial Intelligence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a systematic and detailed description of a design methodology for knowledge-based systems. Such systems contain knowledge as well as information and data. The information and data can be modeled and implemented as a database, the knowledge can be implemented either in a programming language or in an expert systems shell. The methodology has two special features: It is unified, i.e., it represents the data, information, and knowledge in a homogeneous manner, as well as the relationships between them. Also, it builds a maintenance mechanism into the design.
An additional benefit of the book is its thorough treatment of constraints for knowledge and for knowledge-based systems. Presenting the material in both a formal and a practical way, it is intended for practitioners as well as researchers and advanced students.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Fundamentals....Pages 1-31
Non-unified design....Pages 33-56
Items....Pages 57-97
Objects....Pages 99-146
Schemas....Pages 147-175
Normalisation....Pages 177-235
Specification....Pages 237-268
Analysis....Pages 269-317
Function....Pages 319-342
Layout....Pages 343-368
Maintenance....Pages 369-390
Case study....Pages 391-448
Back Matter....Pages 449-467

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Database Management; Software Engineering