An Empirical Analysis of Terminological Representation Systems

The family of terminological representation systems has its roots in the representation system kl-one. Since the development of kl-one more than a dozen similar representation systems have been developed by various research groups. These systems vary along a number of dimensions. In this paper, we present the results of an empirical analysis of six such systems. Surprisingly, the systems turned out to be quite diverse, leading to problems when transporting knowledge bases from one system to another. Additionally, the runtime performance between di erent systems and knowledge bases varied more than we expected. Finally, our empirical runtime performance results give an idea of what runtime performance to expect from such representation systems. These ndings complement previously reported analytical results about the computational complexity of reasoning in such systems. This work has been carried out in the WIP project which is supported by the German Ministry for Research and Technolo...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1992
• Where: AAAI
• Authors: Jochen Heinsohn, Daniel Kudenko, Bernhard Nebel, Hans-Jürgen Profitlich
• Keywords: AAAI 1992, Intelligent Agents, Representation Systems, Runtime Performance, Terminological Representation Systems