AN UML MODELING OF AN ARCHITECTURE FOR KNOWLEDGE DOCUMENTATION

The aim of this paper is to present an UML modeling of a technical memory oriented for the knowledge documentation. The particular knowledge we address in this work is the one generated along the decision making process during product design. The decision model considered here concerns the technological choices and the architecture definition of the products at the knowledge level. After considering the general problem of knowledge documentation in the first section, we devote the following section to the requirements of a technical memory. In the third section we discuss the main contributions in this area. We deal then with the conceptual architecture followed in the fifth section by the corresponding UML modeling. We finally discuss the validation criteria for such a technical memory and open new perspectives.