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From: lebastar@crazy.inria.fr (Franck Lebastard)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.databases
Subject: Re: expert system shell / rule processing system that talks to SQL?
Keywords: Persistent complex objects, relational database, filtering, expert system,
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Date: 2 Mar 90 09:42:59 GMT
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mapping, SQL.

Yes, DRIVER exists !

DRIVER (Donne'es Relationnelles par Interface Virtuelle pour l'Expertise
et le Raisonnement, in french) is a persistent virtual object layer,
that permits to apprehend, in a same chosen object formalism, both the
information contained in relational databases and the knowledge of a
higher-level system such as an expert system shell.
A user-defined mapping assigns an object representation to data of
connected bases; it allows to handle and to use them exactly as other
objects in the expert system environment, for example during reasoning.
DRIVER can also supply some environment objects with persistency,
according to the user's wishes.

Keywords :
Persistent complex objects, relational database, filtering, expert
system, mapping, object defaults, twin objects, SQL.

DRIVER is developed in france at INRIA (National Institute for Research
in Computer Science and Automation) in the SECOIA Project. It is
experimented with SMECI, our expert system shell.

INRIA just published a technical report on DRIVER. It is called "DRIVER:
couche objet virtuelle persistante et raisonnement (DRIVER: A persistent
virtual object layer for reasoning"). It describes the specifications
and the implementation of DRIVER.

@techreport{Lebastard,
AUTHOR="F. Lebastard",
TITLE="DRIVER: Couche objet virtuelle persistante et raisonnement",
NUMBER="1155",
INSTITUTION="INRIA Sophia-Antipolis",
ADDRESS="2004, Route des lucioles  F-06561 Valbonne Cedex, France",
YEAR="1990"
}

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