Conference proceeding
Design and implementation of a database design aid using VP-Expert
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Developing and Managing Expert System Programs
1991
Abstract
The design and implementation of a database modeling aid called Database Designer (DBD) using VP-Expert are discussed. The DBD expert system is intended to help novice users design a proper database by asking questions of the user and thus incrementally building a structure for an extended entity relationship (ER) diagram. The authors discuss their approach to system design for DBD and implementation issues specific to VP-Expert, such as combining backward chaining and forward chaining, procedural techniques, and transparency and visibility of VP-Expert statements. This study indicates that applying a systematic, structural approach, properly commenting the code, and logically grouping rules can make an expert system programming approach viable for designing a complex procedural design application like DBD.< >
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- Title
- Design and implementation of a database design aid using VP-Expert
- Creators
- I.-Y Song - Drexel UniversityS.D Strum - University of Maryland College of Information StudiesC Medsker - University of Maryland College of Information Studies
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Developing and Managing Expert System Programs
- Conference
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Developing and Managing Expert System Programs
- Publisher
- IEEE Comput. Soc. Press
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1991BU39B00003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85067798031
- Other Identifier
- 991019184020704721
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- Engineering, Electrical & Electronic