Research Article

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

Table 1

The course of knowledge exploration for an example of knowledge base.

StepLowerApp(Ri)UpperApp(Ri)Threshold(Ri)/Weighted(Ri)

Representative generation

Similarity between and

Choosing the most relevant groupϕ

Finding rule for activationϕ

Activated ruleϕ

New factsϕ