Enhancing the Efficiency of a Decision Support System through the Clustering of Complex Rule-Based Knowledge Bases and Modification of the Inference Algorithm

Table 2

Inference efficiency vs. representative generation methods.

Representative generation method	New knowledge		Goal not achieved^a	Goal achieved
	Less than 100%	At least 100%
Threshold	23,145 (48.71%)	24,375 (51.29%)	40,657 (85.56%)	6863 (14.44%)
LowerApp	5692 (47.91%)	6188 (52.09%)	10,459 (88.04%)	1421 (11.96%)
UpperApp	6377 (53.68%)	5503 (46.32%)	9277 (78.09%)	2603 (21.91%)
Weighted	22,901 (48.19%)	24,619 (51.81%)	41,036 (86.36%)	6484 (13.64%)

^aEmpty representative found during inference.