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EPSILON* is a knowledge base management system (KBMS) integrating object oriented features, logic programming and databases in a uniform framework. Theories, containing knowledge in different representation formalisms, are the basic components of a knowledge base. Relationships among theories are expressed by various types of links, including inheritance links, which allow to combine the contents of existing theories. In a distributed environment it is possible to develop parts of an application separately on different nodes and to integrate them by defining suitable links as well as to split complex applications into a set of cooperating sub-applications running on different machines. Partitioning of a knowledge base and allocation of sub-knowledge bases to different nodes allow to exploit parallelism and make most efficient use of the resources of the network. Cooperation of autonomous problem solvers is supported by a communication subsystem with decentralized control.
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Kniesel, G., Rohen, M., Cremers, A.B. (1991). A Management System for Distributed Knowledge Base Applications. In: Brauer, W., Hernández, D. (eds) Verteilte Künstliche Intelligenz und kooperatives Arbeiten. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76980-1_7
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