I: Knowledge Base Management Systems. - 1. On Knowledge Base Management Systems. - 2. The Knowledge Level of KBMS. - 3. Knowledge Level Interfaces to Information Systems. - 4. On Knowledge-Based Systems Architectures. - Discussion. - II: Knowledge Bases Versus Databases. - 5. A View Of Knowledge Representation. - 6. AI Knowledge Bases and Databases. - 7. Knowledge versus Data. - 8. Knowledge Bases versus Databases. - 9. Knowledge-Based and Database Systems: Enhancements Coupling or Integration?. - Discussion. - III: Retrieval/Interface/Reasoning. - 10. Inference: A Somewhat Skewed Survey. - 11. Current Trends in Database Query Processing: A Survey. - 12. Logic and Database Systems. - 13. Negation in Knowledge Base Management Systems. - 14. An Approach to Processing Queries in a Logic-Based Query Language. - 15. Naive Evaluation of Recursively Defined Relations. - 16. Knowledge Base Retrieval. - Discussion. - IV: Extending Database Management Systems. - 17. Database Management: A Survey. - 18. Logic and Database Systems: A Survey. - 19. PROBE: A Knowledge-Oriented Database Management System. - 20. Learning Improved Integrity Constraints and Schemas From Exceptions in Databases and Knowledge Bases. - 21. Organizing a Design Database Across Time. - 22. Triggers and Inference in Database Systems. - 23. Extensible Database Systems. - Discussion. - V: Extending Knowledge-Based Systems. - 24. Knowledge-Based Systems: A Survey. - 25. Natural Language Processing: A Survey. - 26. Questions Answers and Responses: Interacting With Knowledge Base Systems. - 27. Learning in Knowledge Base Management Systems. - 28. The Role of Databases in Knowledge-Based Systems. - 29. An Integration of Knowledge and Data Representation. - Discussion. - VI: Knowledge-Based System Design Issues. - 30. Context Structures/Versioning: A Survey. - 31. Survey of Conceptual Modeling of Information Systems. - 32. A Requirements Modeling Language and Its Logic. - 33. Languages for Knowledge Bases. - 34. Control of Search and Knowledge Acquisition in Large-Scale KBMS. - Discussion. - VII: Advanced Hardware for Knowledge-Based Systems. - 35. New Computer Architectures: A Survey. - 36. The Role of Massive Memory in Knowledge Base Management Systems. - 37. Parallel Computers for AI Databases. - Discussion. - Epilogue. - 38. Concluding Remarks from the Artificial Intelligence Perspective. - 39. Concluding Remarks from the Database Perspective. - 40. Large-Scale Knowledge-Based Systems: Concluding Remarks and Technological Challenges. - Contributors' Addresses. - References. Language: English