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title: "An Advisory System for Developing Data Representations"
authors:
  - "Shmuel Katz"
  - "Ruth Zimmerman"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/197"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0197.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1981
pages: "1030-1035"
track: "Program Synthesis"
keywords:
---

# An Advisory System for Developing Data Representations

Shmuel Katz, Ruth Zimmerman

*Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1030-1035.

## Abstract

A knowledge-based interactive system for choosing abstract data structures and concrete representations for them is described. The system acts as an "expert" on data structures and is to be consulted by programmers during the design stage of their work . A specification method is described which assumes a restricted vocabulary of data structure terminology common to the user and the system. The selection process uses a base of knowledge about known abstract data structures and representations, and provides new combinations of known structures which satisfy complex requirements not anticipated in advance.