COMPONENT-BASED SUPPORT FOR KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS

Sabine Moisan

2008

Abstract

Software development of knowledge-based systems is difficult. To alleviate this task we propose to apply software engineering techniques. This paper investigates BL O C K S, a component framework for designing and reengineering knowledge-based system inference engines. BL O C K S provides reusable building blocks common to various engines, independently on their task or application domain. It has been used to build several engines for various tasks (planning, classification, model calibration) in different domains. The approach appears well fitted to knowledge-based system generators; it allows a significant gain in time, as well as it improves software legibility and safeness.

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Moisan S. (2008). COMPONENT-BASED SUPPORT FOR KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-37-1, pages 295-300. DOI: 10.5220/0001702702950300


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@conference{iceis08,
author={Sabine Moisan},
title={COMPONENT-BASED SUPPORT FOR KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={295-300},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001702702950300},
isbn={978-989-8111-37-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - COMPONENT-BASED SUPPORT FOR KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-8111-37-1
AU - Moisan S.
PY - 2008
SP - 295
EP - 300
DO - 10.5220/0001702702950300