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The KBMS Project and Beyond

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Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications

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The Knowledge Base Management Systems (KBMS) Project at the University of Toronto (1985-1995) was inspired by a need for advanced knowledge representation applications that require knowledge bases containing hundreds of thousands or even millions of knowledge units. The knowledge representation language Telos provided a framework for the project. The key results included conceptual modeling innovations in the use of semantic abstractions, representations of time and space, and implementation techniques for storage management, query processing, rule management, and concurrency control. In this paper, we review the key ideas introduced in the KBMS project, and connect them to some of the work since the conclusion of the project that is either closely related to or directly inspired by it.

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  1. SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA

    Vinay K. Chaudhri

  2. Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada

    Igor Jurisica

  3. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Manolis Koubarakis

  4. University of Crete and FORTH-ICS, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Dimitris Plexousakis

  5. McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Center, Montreal, Canada

    Thodoros Topaloglou

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Chaudhri, V.K., Jurisica, I., Koubarakis, M., Plexousakis, D., Topaloglou, T. (2009). The KBMS Project and Beyond. In: Borgida, A.T., Chaudhri, V.K., Giorgini, P., Yu, E.S. (eds) Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5600. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02463-4_24

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