Towards Very Large Knowledge Bases

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Towards Very Large Knowledge Bases is written by N. J. I. Mars and published by IOS Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9051992173 (ISBN 10) and 9789051992175 (ISBN 13).

In the early days of artificial intelligence it was widely believed that powerful computers would, in the future, enable mankind to solve many real-world problems through the use of very general inference procedures and very little domain-specific knowledge. With the benefit of hindsight, this view can now be called quite naive. The field of expert systems, which developed during the early 1970s, embraced the paradigm that Knowledge is Power - even very fast computers require very large amounts of very specific knowledge to solve non-trivial problems. Thus, the field of large knowledge bases has emerged.