The concept of a generalized model management System (GMMS) and its role in a decision support system are discussed. A paradigm for developing a GMMS which integrates artificial intelligence techniques with data management concepts is presented. The paradigm views a GMMS as a knowledge-based modeling system (KBMS) with knowledge abstractions as the vehicle of knowledge and model representation. Knowledge abstractions are introduced as a hybrid of the predicate calculus, semantic network, and frame representations in artificial intelligence (AI) embodied in an equivalent of a programming language data abstraction structure. As a result, models represented by knowledge abstractions are not only subject to the powerful problem reduction and inference techniques available in the AI domain but are also in a form conducive to model management. The knowledge abstraction in its most general form is seen as a frame which serves as a template for generating abstraction instances for specific classes of models. The corollaries of an abstraction-based GMMS with current data management concepts are explored. A CODASYL implementation of an abstraction-based GMMS for the class of linear programming models is described and demonstrated.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/184836 |
| Date | January 1982 |
| Creators | DOLK, DANIEL ROY. |
| Publisher | The University of Arizona. |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Dissertation-Reproduction (electronic) |
| Rights | Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. |
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