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title: "Browsing in Large Data Bases"
authors:
  - "Douglas D. Dankel II"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/44"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0044.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1979
pages: ""
track: ""
keywords:
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# Browsing in Large Data Bases

Douglas D. Dankel II

*Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*.

## Abstract

The formation of dat~ bases containing information on mechanical systems for troubleshooting purposes has become increasingly popular and important. Examination of thP.se data bases by humans can be very costly. A system called BROWSER was developed to heuristically search a data base containing inform~tion on U.S. Navy aircraft with little or no human intervention. BROWSER searches the data base guided by models and heuristics looking for interesting patterns or configurations. The user is then notified of the existence of these patterns.