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From: jansen@ditsyda.oz (Bob Jansen)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Modelling Abstract Objects in traditional RDBMS
Summary: modelling abstract types in RDBMS
Message-ID: <1772@ditsyda.oz>
Date: 10 Feb 89 06:14:29 GMT
References: <34046@cs.tcd.ie>
Organization: CSIRO DIT Sydney, Australia
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In article <34046@cs.tcd.ie>, vwade@cs.tcd.ie (Vincent Wade, Network Lab, TCD, Ph 772941 Extn 1524.) writes:
> Hi,
> 	I was wondering if anyone out there knew of any references (work
> details) concerned with the modelling of Abstract Objects onto a conventional
> RDBMS.
> 

The  CSIRO DOvision of Information Technology has a research group working in the area of the software engineering of expert systems. In this domain, we are producing database models of production rules, frames, semantic ntes, and other knowledge representation formalisms. This work deals with abstract objects like rules, facts, actions etc. We have augmented the data dictionary concept to cater for these abstract types, and have built a prototype system using Hypercard on a Mac. 

The results are writen up in various reports and publshed papers, notably, the proceedings of the FGCS'88, and the Workshop on the Integration of knowledge based and performance systems as part of the AAAI'88 conference. In addition, technical reports are available on application and the paymeny of an appropriate fee by mailing 'marcure@ditsyda.oz'
                 
TR-FR-87-02 Applying Software Engineering COncepts to Rule Based Expert Systems
TR-FC-88-01 The Knowledge Dictionary: A Relational Tool for the Maintenance of Expert Systems
TR-FC-88-02 The Knowledge Dictionary: Integrating a Knowledge Base with a Data Store
TR-FD-89-02 The Knowledge Dictionary: Storing Different Knowledge Representations















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