Knowledge representation in the large

  • Authors:
  • Peter D. Karp;Suzanne M. Paley

  • Affiliations:
  • Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA;Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Frame knowledge representation systems lack two important capabilities that prevent them from scaling up to large applications: they do not support fast access to large knowledge bases (KBs), nor do they provide concurrent multiuser access to shared KBs. We describe the design and implementation of a storage subsystem that submerges a database management system (DBMS) within a knowledge representation system. The storage subsystem incrementally loads referenced frames from the DBMS, and can save to the DBMS only those frames that have been updated in a given session. We present experimental results that show our approach to be an improvement over the use of flat files, and that evaluate several variations of our approach.