Managing intelligent systems with a deductive database: a first step towards federated knowledge based-systems

The work presented is part of a more important project which aims at designing federated knowledge based-systems (FKBS). The purpose of FKBSs is to make autonomous, heterogeneous and eventually geographically distributed KBSs cooperate with each other. The first step towards such systems consists in facilitating the designer's access to the pre-existing expert processing capabilities of the organization. In that regard, the purpose of the authors is to propose a deductive database (DDB) which one can record, structure, maintain and produce information about the existing KBS and their reusable components (knowledge base, control process etc.). In addition to intelligent system projects support, the DDB can also serve for knowledge communication, human training and software re-usability purposes