Dependencies Between Knowledge for the Case Factory Maintenance Approach

In many knowledge-based systems the used knowledge is distributed among several knowledge sources. These knowledge sources may have dependencies between each other, which should be considered when maintaining these sources. An integrated maintenance approach for multiple Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) systems has to consider dependencies between the individual knowledge containers within one CBR system and the dependencies between the knowledge containers of different CBR systems. This paper describes the dependencies between knowledge containers in CBR systems from the perspective of the Case Factory approach and how possible maintenance actions could be derived from these dependencies.