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AI Knowledge Bases And Databases

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In which the author expresses general scepticism about proposals for a trouble free marriage of AI Knowledge Bases and Databases (narrowly and tendentiously construed.) The author argues, as well, against a shotgun wedding.

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  • Query Language
  • Expressive Power
  • Domain Closure
  • Atomic Sentence
  • Representational Format

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  1. Reiter, R., “Towards a Logical Reconstruction of Relational Database Theory,” in [BMS84], 1984.

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Israel, D. (1986). AI Knowledge Bases And Databases. 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_7

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