Designing and implementing an intelligent database application: A case study

摘要

The past few years have witnessed an increasing interest in both academia and industry to integrate database management systems and expert systems technologies to develop more intelligent applications. Conventional fourth-generation languages coupled with relational databases provide an attractive environment for designing and implementing database-driven applications that incorporate expert system techniques. This article describes such an application, ARCHES (American Red Cross Health Education System). This application was developed by the author and is currently in use at several Red Cross chapters in the New England region.