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Foundations of Knowledge Systems - with Applications to Databases and Agents (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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Foundations of Knowledge Systems - with Applications to Databases and Agents (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
Series: Advances in Database Systems, 13
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One of the main uses of computer systems is the management of large
amounts of symbolic information representing the state of some
application domain, such as information about all the people I
communicate with in my personal address database, or relevant parts
of the outer space in the knowledge base of a NASA space mission.
While database management systems offer only the basic services of
information storage and retrieval, more powerful knowledge systems
offer, in addition, a number of advanced services such as deductive
and abductive reasoning for the purpose of finding explanations and
diagnoses, or generating plans. In order to design and understand
database and knowledge-based applications it is important to build
upon well-established conceptual and mathematical foundations. What
are the principles behind database and knowledge systems? What are
their major components? Which are the important cases of knowledge
systems? What are their limitations? Addressing these questions,
and discussing the fundamental issues of information update,
knowledge assimilation, integrity maintenance, and inference-based
query answering, is the purpose of this book. Foundations of
Databases and Knowledge Systems covers both basic and advanced
topics. It may be used as the textbook of a course offering a broad
introduction to databases and knowledge bases, or it may be used as
an additional textbook in a course on databases or Artificial
Intelligence. Professionals and researchers interested in learning
about new developments will benefit from the encyclopedic character
of the book, which provides organized access to many advanced
concepts in the theory of databases and knowledge bases.
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