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

Table 5

Inference efficiency vs. clustering methods.

Clustering method	New knowledge		Goal not achieved^a	Goal achieved
	Less than 100%	At least 100%
SL	14,721 (49.57%)	14,979 (50.43%)	24,941 (83.98%)	4759 (16.02%)
CL	14,182 (47.75%)	15,518 (52.25%)	25,122 (84.59%)	4578 (15.41%)
AL	14,517 (48.88%)	15,183 (51.12%)	25,795 (86.85%)	3905 (13.15%)
CoL	14,695 (49.48%)	15,005 (50.52%)	25,571 (86.10%)	4129 (13.90%)

^aEmpty representative found during inference.