Full Description
Traditional database systems have been able to manipulate
large amounts of data efficiently, whilst artificial
intelligence (and in particular expert systems) have
reasoned with rules, but rarely with data. It has become
evident that to build truly intelligent information systems,
facilities are required from artificial intelligence and
database and distributed technologies.
This book consists of seventeen selected and revised papers
on the next generation of information systems, based on
papers presented at two workshops, one on integrating
artificial intelligence and databases, and the other on
intelligent and cooperating information systems. The papers
address several core issues, such as intelligence,
distribution, and multi-agent/cooperative systems, and
focuses on designing and building such systems mainly
through the use of intelligent agents. The book presents
up-to-date developments in this interdisciplinary field,
covering information systems, artificial intelligence, and
distributed systems.
Contents
The next generation of information systems — from intelligence to distribution and cooperation.- A data and operation model for advanced database systems.- An object-oriented data model to represent uncertainty in coupled artificial intelligence — database systems.- Common architectures for databases and knowledge-based systems.- The construction of maintainable knowledge bases.- Adding qualitative reasoning to an organizational database for management decision support.- Building human-centered intelligent cooperative information systems with IKEA.- Database organisation for qualitative analysis: the NUDIST™ system.- Using a prolog engine to integrate multiple knowledge sources: the KCM/Help-desk project.- From relations to objects: A translation methodology for an object oriented front-end to RDBMSs.- A framework for cooperative adaptable information systems.- Problem solving in federative environments: The FRESCO concept of cooperative agents.- Heterogeneous database integration architecture based on a conversation theoretic skeleton.- Coarse-grained distributed agents for transparent access to remote information.- A forward-chaining information framework.- Using negotiation and coordination in multiagent Intelligent Cooperative Information Systems.- A distributed cooperative agents architecture for software development.- Knowledge selection in large knowledge bases.
