The effect of knowledge representation schemes on maintainability of knowledge-based systems

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 173-178

  Lee, Sunro ^a   O'Keefe, Robert M ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical; Experiment; Knowledge based systems; Maintenance; Verification

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MAINTAINABILITY;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030085031     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.485645     Document Type: Article

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