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Measuring the Storage and Retrieval of Knowledge Units: An Empirical Study Using MES

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Computer applications are smart that they require efficient storage and retrieval of data. Object-relational data models are the opted and the widely appreciable approach because of their power in object representation and relational retrieval. Two OR models were designed for representing knowledge units in the Music Expert System and three metrics were proposed to study the storage and retrieval of the knowledge units from the OR schemas. Experiments conducted to asses the storage efficiency and relational retrieval of the objects indicated significant results. The metrics were used to keep in check the size of the objects created during runtime and their relational coupling helped in the retrieval of objects, with minimal disk reads. The empirical results and interpretations concludes the work, focusing on the efficient design of OR schema models which commend the functioning of the system’s performance.

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Justus, S., Iyakutti, K. (2009). Measuring the Storage and Retrieval of Knowledge Units: An Empirical Study Using MES. In: Ranka, S., et al. Contemporary Computing. IC3 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03547-0_34

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