Sr. Lee et Rm. Okeefe, THE EFFECT OF KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION SCHEMES ON MAINTAINABILITY OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, IEEE transactions on knowledge and data engineering, 8(1), 1996, pp. 173-178
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Information Science & Library Science","Computer Sciences, Special Topics","Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic","Computer Science Artificial Intelligence
We use an experimental approach to investigate the representational ef
fects of knowledge on maintainability, and compare this with the struc
tural effects of rule sets investigated by Davis [5]. Results show tha
t an object-based system, compared to a structured rule-based system,
was easier to maintain in terms of the time to do the maintenance task
s, but not necessarily in terms of accuracy of the alterations. Howeve
r, in some instances subsumption and redundancies were introduced into
the rule-based system, which can cause problems for subsequent mainte
nance. Subjects perceived the structured rule-base system as more comp
lex than the object-oriented system, and perceived the object structur
e as more useful than the rule modularization and documentation.