Modular Construction of Very Large Knowledge Bases

Abstract

In this report, we describe work done at Kestrel under the DARPA High Performance Knowledge Bases program. The goal of the program is to develop methods for structuring large knowledge-bases and reasoning efficiently in them. The report contains four sections. In the first, we describe our work on the crisis management challenge problems. In the second, we describe our Designware system for semi-automated program synthesis. In the third, we present a detailed description of parametrized specifications, an important tool for combining theory refinements. In the fourth, we describe limits, interpretation, and slicing, all important tools for constructing, deconstructing, and relating theories.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA385282

Entities

People

  • David Espinosa

Organizations

  • Kestrel Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Construction
  • Crisis Management
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Model Theory
  • Modular Construction
  • Programming Languages
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Specifications
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Software Engineering.