Book review: Knowledge Systems Design by John K. Debenham (Prentice Hall, 1989)

The author introduces the book in the reface as one meant for people interested in building expert systems and deductive databases, and in particular for those interested in building maintainable expert systems. He states that the book is not meant for a beginner, but is "designed for the educated, knowledge processing specialist". The book is slanted towards working professionals, rather than academics, a stance which is indicated by his statement in the preface where he states that "[the book] should be of prime interest to those large corporations with a commitment to building a large, integrated, corporate knowledge base".