The Next Generation of Information Systems: From Data to Knowledge: A Selection of Papers Presented at Two IJCAI-91 Workshops, Sydney, Australia, August 26, 1991

Traditional database systems have been able to manipulate large amounts of data efficiently, whilst artificial intelligence (and in particular expert systems) have reasoned with rules, but rarely with data. It has become evident that to build truly intelligent information systems, facilities are required from artificial intelligence and database and distributed technologies. This book consists of seventeen selected and revised papers on the next generation of information systems, based on p...