Ideas About Management of LISP Data Bases
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The trend toward larger data bases in A.I. programs makes it desirable to provide program support for the activity of building and maintaining LISP data bases. Many techniques can be drawn from present and proposed systems for supporting program maintenance, but there are also a variety of additional problems and possibilities. Most importantly, a system for supporting data base development needs a formal description of the user's data base. The description must at least partly be contributed by the user. The paper discusses the operation of such a support system, and describes some ideas that have been useful in a prototype system.
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Work reported herein was conducted partly at Uppsala University, Swden, with support from the Swedish Board of Technical Development, and partly at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology research program supported in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense and monitored by the Office of Naval Research under Contract Number N00014-70-A-0362-0005.
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1975-01Publisher
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Working Papers, WP-86No. 86