Hyper-semantic data modeling

Abstract

This paper describes a new area of data modeling, a model in this new area, and the schema specification language for the model. The Knowledge/Data Model captures both knowledge semantics, as specified in Knowledge Based Systems, and data semantics, as represented by Semantic Data Models. The Knowledge/Data Model is an instance of a new class of models, called hyper-semantic data models, which facilitate the incorporation of knowledge in the form of heuristics, uncertainty, constraints and other Artificial Intelligence concepts, together with object-oriented concepts found in Semantic Data Models. The unified knowledge/data modeling features are provided via the constructs of the Knowledge/Data Language. © 1989.