Correspondence: Response to "Are Complete K-Trees Something More than Decision Trees?"

Abstract

This is a response to the Correspondence from Gabriel Valiente regarding the article "Using Complete K-Trees to Generate Code in Pascal for an Expert System" that appeared in Volume 1 Number 2 of the SIGART Bulletin. Contrary to his assertion that the idea of a complete K-Tree is the central result presented, as the title indicates, the central result is the use of K-Trees to generate high level code for expert systems. Generation of such code is becoming increasingly important as expert systems, or what many people refer to as expert systems, are being integrated into larger applications. We would, nevertheless, like to clarify some of the points made in the Correspondence.