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title: "Knowledge Base Compilation"
authors:
  - "F. D. Highland"
  - "Christine T. Iwaskiw"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/36"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/0036.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1989
pages: "227-231"
track: "Real-time and High Performance"
keywords:
---

# Knowledge Base Compilation

F. D. Highland, Christine T. Iwaskiw

*Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 227-231.

## Abstract

The effective use of knowledge based systems technology to solve .complex and real-time problems in embedded system environments requires that the performance of these systems be maximized for conventional processor architectures. This paper presents a technique for the complete compilation of knowledge bases directly into procedural code. The technique is based on determining what actions an interpretive inference engine would . take with the specific knowledge base and generating only the code needed to perform those actions. This eliminates the overhead of interpreting a representation of the knowledge base and significantly improves performance . The performance gains produced by this approach will be examined using examples from the High Performance Embedded Reasoning (HiPER) System, a prototype tool w.hich utilizes this technology.