Parallel Architectures for Data/Knowledge-Based Systems [Book Reviews]

Abstract

This tutorial is a collection of 3 5 previously published papers devoted to parallelization of data or knowledge-based systems. Papers are classified into several chapters: introduction, data models, database machines, textretrieval machines, commercial database machines, knowledge-based machines, and new directions. Each chapter starts with one paper as a guideline to a major topic and to papers of the chapter. T h e book addresses two main issues: