[mod.ai] Seminar - Parallel Architectures for Knowledge Bases

E1AR0002@SMUVM1.BITNET (03/10/86)

Toward Computer Architectures for Database and Knowledge Base Processing
Computer Science and Engineering Seminar, Friday, March 14, 1986
Speaker: Lubomir Bic
         University of California at Irvine
Location: 315SIC
Time: 3:00 PM

The importance of parallelism has been recognized in recent years and
a number of multiprocessor architectures claiming suitability to
intelligent data and knowledge base processing have been proposed.
The success of these architectures has been, in most cases, rather
modest.  The message conveyed in this talk is that, in order to build
highly-parallel computer architectures, new models of computation
capable of exploiting the potential of large numbers of processing
elments and memory units must first be developed.  To support this
claim, two such models-- one for processing queries in a
network-oriented database system and another for extracting
information from a logic-based knowledge representation system -- will
be outlined.  Both models are based on the principles of asynchronous
data-driven computation, which eliminate the need for centralized
control and shared memory.