KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION SYSTEM INCLUDING INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE-BASE AND DATABASE, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UTILIZING THE SAME

摘要

A knowledge representation system includes a database module for storing data in a database format, and a knowledge representation module for storing knowledge information in a knowledge-base format. The knowledge representation module includes an interface mechanism for interfacing communication between the database module and the knowledge representation module. A query processing device is provided for processing queries input into the knowledge representation system. The query processing device initializes communication between the knowledge representation module and the database module based upon preprocessing of queries. A single query to the query processing device results in communication between the database module and the knowledge representation module through the interface mechanism.