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A Relational Database Interface for Design Expert Systems
Author(s) -
GHOSH D. K.,
KALYANARAMAN V.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
computer‐aided civil and infrastructure engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.773
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1467-8667
pISSN - 1093-9687
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8667.1990.tb00050.x
Subject(s) - computer science , expert system , inference engine , subject matter expert , knowledge base , relational database , legal expert system , database design , software engineering , knowledge representation and reasoning , knowledge based systems , domain knowledge , domain (mathematical analysis) , database , data mining , artificial intelligence , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Most of the software so far developed that is based on expert systems uses a rule‐based representation of the domain knowledge. Expert System applications in the engineering design process, however, frequently require access to a large static knowledge base that is easily represented in a database. This article presents the details of a relational database module to represent such static knowledge that is callable as a function by a rule‐based expert system. The software implemented on a microcomputer using a C compiler, can be accessed by any inference engine with external C function calling capability. It has been used in developing an expert system for the design of steel structural elements.