Knowledge Engineering and Management: The CommonKADS Methodology / Edition 1
by Guus Schreiber, Hans Akkermans, Anjo Anjewierden, Robert de De Hoog
The book covers in an integrated fashion the complete route from corporate knowledge management, through knowledge analysis andengineering, to the design and implementation of knowledge-intensiveinformation systems.See more details below
Overview
The book covers in an integrated fashion the complete route from corporate knowledge management, through knowledge analysis andengineering, to the design and implementation of knowledge-intensiveinformation systems.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780262193009
- Publisher:
- MIT Press
- Publication date:
- 12/17/1999
- Edition description:
- New Edition
- Pages:
- 471
- Product dimensions:
- 7.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)
- Age Range:
- 18 Years
Table of Contents
Preface1 Prologue: The Value of Knowledge
1.1 The Information Society Is KnowlegdeDriven
1.2 Knowledge in Context
1.3 Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Systems
1.4 Book Overview
1.5 A Road Map for the Reader
1.6 Bibliographical Notes and Further Reading
2 KnowledgeEngineering Basics
2.1 Historical Perspective
2.2 The Methodological Pyramid
2.3 Principles
2.4 Model Suite
2.5 Process Roles
2.6 Some Terminology
2.7 Bibliographical Notes and Further Reading
3 The Task and Its Organizational Context
3.1 Why Organizational Aspects Are So Important
3.2 The Main Steps in Task and Organization Analysis
3.3 The Feasibility Study: Organization Modelling
3.4 Case: Social Security Services
3.5 Impact and Improvement Analysis: Task and Agent Modelling
3.6 Case: IceCream Product Development
3.7 Guidelines for the Context Modelling Process
3.8 Bibliographical Notes and Further Reading
4 Knowledge Management
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Explicit and Tacit Knowledge
4.3 The Knowledge Management Cycle
4.4 Knowledge Management Has a Value and Process Focus
4.5 Knowledge Management with CommonKADS
4.6 Knowledge Management and Knowledge Engineering
4.7 Bibliographical Notes and Further Reading
5 Knowledge Model Components
5.1 The Nature of "Knowledge"
5.2 Challenges in Representing Knowledge
5.3 The Knowledge Model
5.4 Domain Knowledge
5.5 Inference Knowledge
5.6 Task Knowledge
5.7 Typographic Conventions
5.8 Comparison with Other Analysis Approaches
5.9 Bibliographical Notes and Further Reading
6 Template Knowledge Models
6.1 Reusing KnowledgeModel Elements
6.2 ASmall Rask Template Catalog
6.3 Classification
6.4 Assessment
6.5 Diagnosis
6.6 Monitoring
6.7 Synthesis
6.8 Configuration Design
6.9 Assignment
6.10 Planning
6.11 Scheduling
6.12 TaskType Combinations
6.13 Relation to Task and Organization Models
6.14 Bibliographical Notes and Further Reading
7 Knowledge Model Construction
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Stages in KnowledgeModel Construction
7.3 Knowledge Identification
7.4 Knowledge Specification
7.5 Knowledge Refinement
7.6 Some Remarks about KnowledgeModel Maintenance
7.7 Documenting the Knowledge Model
7.8 Bibliographical Notes and Further Reading
8 KnowledgeElicitation Techniques
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Characteristics of Knowledge Elicitation
8.3 On Experts
8.4 Elicitation Scenario
8.5 An Elicitation Scenario
8.6 Some Final Remarks
8.7 Bibliographical Notes and Further Reading
9 Modelling Communication Aspects
9.1 Role and Overview of the Communication Model
9.2 The Communication Plan
9.3 Case: Homebots A Multiagent System for Energy Management
9.4 Transactions between Agents
9.5 Detailing the Information Exchange
9.6 The Homebots System Example Continued
9.7 Validating and Balancing the Communication Model
9.8 A Structured Process for Communication Modelling
9.9 Bibliographical Notes and Further Reading
10 Case Study: The Housing Application
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Application Domain: Rental Residence Assignment
10.3 Organization Model
10.4 Task Model
10.5 Agent Model
10.6 Sumamry of Proposed Solution and Its Effects
10.7 Knowledge Modelling
10.8 Communication Model
11 Designing Knowledge Systems
11.1 Introduction
11.2 StructurePreserving Design
11.3 Step 1: Design System Architecture
11.4 Step 2: Identify Target Implementation Platform
11.5 Step 3: Specify Architectural Components
11.6 Step 4: Specify Application within Architecture
11.7 Design Prototypes
11.8 Distrubuted Architectures
11.9 Bibliographical Notes and Further Reading
12 KnowledgeSystem Implementation
12.1 Implementation in Prolog
12.2 Implementation in Aion
12.3 Bibliographical Notes and Further Reading
13 Advanced Knowledge Modelling
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Domain Knowledge
13.3 Inference Knowledge
13.4 Task Knowledge
13.5 Bibliographical Notes and Further Reading
14 UML Notations Used in CommonKADS
14.1 UML Background
14.2 Activity Diagram
14.3 State Diagram
14.4 Class Diagram
14.5 UseCase Diagram
14.6 General UML Constructs
14.7 A Small Case Study
14.8 Bibliographical Notes and Further Reading
15 Project Management
15.1 Control versus Flexibility: Striking the Balance
15.2 Project Planning: The CommonKADS LifeCycle Model
15.3 Assessing Risks
15.4 Plan: Setting Objectives through Model States
15.5 Notes on Quality and Project Documentation
15.6 Case: A Project on Nuclear Reactor Noise Analysis
15.7 How Not to Manage a KnowledgeSystem Project
15.8 Bibliographical Notes and Further Reading
Appendix: KnowledgeModel Language
A.1 Language Conventions
A.2 Language Syntax
A.3 Full Knowledge Model for the Housing Application
Glossary of Graphical Notations
References
Index
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