Citation
Naoh, Shahrul Azman and Williams, Michael
(2004)
Improving the Quality of Solutions by Automated Database
Design Systems with the Provision of Real World
Knowledge - An Evaluation.
Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology, 12 (1).
pp. 51-67.
ISSN 0128-7680
Abstract
Automated database design systems have the capability of assisting human
designers in the process of database analysis and design. However, the capacity
of these systems to produce quality solutions which are similar to expert human
designers remains largely unresolved. Therefore, in recent years there have
been a number of attempts to develop systems that are not only "knowledgeable"
about database design process but also have the capability of exploiting
knowledge of the real world. Although such use of real world knowledge was
claimed capable of increasing the quality of design models, there is currently
little, if any, formal evaluation that this claim has taken place. This paper
presents such an evaluation of three existing approaches proposed to facilitate
system-storage and exploitation of real world knowledge; the dictionary approach,
the thesaurus approach, and the knowledge reconciliation approach. Results
obtained have indicated that some of the approaches under examination in this study are capable of producing higher quality design models compared to
when no such knowledge is in use. However, the ability of such representations
of real world knowledge to achieve the standard quality of human generated
design models remains unanswered.
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Item Type: |
Article
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Publisher: |
Universiti Putra Malaysia Press |
Keywords: |
Database design, automated database design, system evaluation,
artificial intelligence |
Depositing User: |
Nur Izyan Mohd Zaki
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Date Deposited: |
01 Dec 2009 00:56 |
Last Modified: |
27 May 2013 07:10 |
URI: |
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3667 |
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