E-DEVICE: an extensible active knowledge base system with multiple rule type support

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 824-844

  Bassiliades, Nick ^a,b   Vlahavas, Ioannis ^a,b   Elmagarmid, Ahmed K ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PERFORMANCE;

EXTENSIBLE ACTIVE KNOWLEDGE BASE SYSTEM; MULTIPLE DECLARATIVE RULE SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034268585     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.877511     Document Type: Article

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