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The design and implementation of K: a high-level knowledge-base programming language of OSAM*.KBMS

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The OSAM*.KBMS is a knowledge-base management system, or the so-called next-generation database management system, for non-traditional data/knowledge-intensive applications. In order to define, query, and manipulate a knowledge base, as well as to write codes to implement any application system, we have developed an object-oriented knowledge-base programming language called K to serve as the high-level interface of OSAM*.KBMS. This paper presents the design of K, its implementation, and its supporting KBMS developed at the Database Systems Research and Development Center of the University of Florida.

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  1. CSE 470, Database Systems R&D Center, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA , , , , , , US

    Yuh-Ming Shyy, Javier Arroyo, Stanley Y.W. Su & Herman Lam

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Edited by Dennis McLeod. Received July 1992 / Accepted August 1995

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Shyy, YM., Arroyo, J., Su, S. et al. The design and implementation of K: a high-level knowledge-base programming language of OSAM*.KBMS . The VLDB Journal 5, 181–195 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/s007780050023

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