Abstract
Recent methodologies in knowledge engineering (K.E) are oriented towards the construction of component libraries. The concepts commonly used in describing Knowledge Base Systems are tasks, PSMs (problem solving methods) and domains. Developers have to select them from a library, adapt and link them so that they fit their specific needs. In order to help developers to quickly understand, find, and configure the components1 best suited to their applications, we need to specify languages for describing tasks, PSMs and domains plus the different interactions between them. We propose to clarify the different interactions using inter- and intra-concept links and to describe the different concepts languages using ontologies improving thus their reusability and sharing.
We use components referring to task, PSM, domain, and links concepts and their specialisation.
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Messaadia, K., Oussalah, M. (1999). Knowledge Engineering with Semantic and Transfer Links. In: Tepfenhart, W.M., Cyre, W. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Standards and Practices. ICCS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1640. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48659-3_5
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