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David Israel presented a position paper onn what he called a “moving target: knowledge bases and databases”. According to him, databases are simple knowledge bases; simple in that they only contain assertions in a canonical normal form and their expressive power is limited. Moreover, there is an implicit closed world assumption being made in the minds of their users. By contrast, knowledge bases are database, where one can express more kinds of things in a direct way. At the moment most knowledge bases are small. AI people should either learn the Database techniques for dealing with large amounts of data, or get people from that database side to transfer some of their techniques to the AI realm. The “revolutionary” approach suggested by John Mylopoulos involves the toughest job.
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Brodie, M.L., Mylopoulos, J. (1986). Knowledge Based and Database Systems: Enhancements, Coupling or Integration?. In: Brodie, M.L., Mylopoulos, J. (eds) On Knowledge Base Management Systems. Topics in Information Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4980-1_11
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