# KEHOME/homepage/useKE.txt
# 1999/Apr/21

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# Can you use Knowledge Explorer? #
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I envision five classes of KE users:

1. Personal computer owners
Every owner can use KE as a personal relational database
management system.  Compared to commercially available DBMSs,
KE has the advantage of being more flexible and powerful --
you can dynamically redefine the knowledge base using simple
English-like statements.  Its "smart input menu" and "question"s
provide simple form-based input and output.

2. Programmers
People with some programming background will find KE even more
appealing because of its UNIX-like control structures.  My
knowledge representation language, KR, provides the essential
features of a modern programming language.

3. Database designers
Database designers can use KE to explore and define the
entity-relation model for a database system.

4. Professional philosophers
Philosophers can use KE as an aid in abstract thinking.
Because the design of the KR language is based on a comprehensive
theory of knowledge, it can concisely characterize anything from
the most abstract axiomatic concepts to every day events.

5. Artificial Intelligence researchers
Because of KR's strong theoretical foundation, AI researchers
can use KE to gain insight into basic knowledge representation
issues.
