Knowledge Engineering

Publisher Summary The discipline of knowledge engineering grew out of the early work on expert systems in the seventies. With the growing popularity of knowledge-based systems, there arose also a need for a systematic approach for building such systems, similar to methodologies in mainstream software engineering. Over the years, the discipline of knowledge engineering has evolved into the development of theory, methods, and tools for developing knowledge-intensive applications. In other words, it provides guidance about when and how to apply particular knowledge-presentation techniques for solving particular problems. This chapter discusses a number of principles that have become the baseline of modern knowledge engineering. These include the common distinction made in knowledge engineering between task knowledge and domain knowledge. It explores the notion of problem-solving tasks in detail and presents typical patterns and methods for solving such tasks. It focuses on the domain perspective, in particular the representation and use of ontologies and discusses the main techniques that are being used in knowledge engineering.

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