Databases in Large AI Systems

Databases are at the heart of most realworld knowledge base systems. The management and effective use of these databases will be the limiting factors in our ability to build ever more complex AI systems. This article reports on a workshop that explored how databases and their associated technologies can best be used in the development of large AI applications. On 26 August 1988, approximately 50 people assembled at a workshop sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) to share ideas about the use of database management techniques in large AI systems. The organizers of the workshop were Forouzan Golshani, Department of Computer Science, Arizona State University, chairman; Ron Ashany, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley; Michael Brodie, GTE Labs., Waltham, Massachusetts; Oris Friesen, Bull HN Information Systems, Phoenix, Arizona; Sara Graves, Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama, Huntsville; and Carlo Zaniolo, MCC, Austin, Texas.