Representing Databases in Frames

Book One

Volume

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 6

Knowledge Representation

Three methods for representing data in a relational storage system with an in-core frame-based system are experimented with and reported upon. Tradeoffs among these three representational methods are sizes of databases, times for loading data, and performance of queries. Essentially, these methods differ in ways of capturing relationships among frames. The three different ways of capturing such relationships are via links (pointers), symbolic names (keys), or both. Results of the experiments shed light on efficient interfacing of databases with frame-based systems.