Rule by example: an example-based approach to knowledge base management

An example-based approach to knowledge base management involves capturing all rules as example data. Such an approach has many advantages since data have been studied extensively, and a variety of techniques for effective management have been developed. Expressing all rules as stereotypical data allowed in the system provides a comprehensive solution to the three basic problems of a knowledge base system. It provides a simple end-user language by reducing rules to data which have simpler semantics; it allows the storage of rules as data and hence the use of database technology to store, retrieve, and maintain rules; and it simplifies execution of rules by reducing it to data comparison