process that needs to be applied in an organized manner. This paper presents an approach for building a generic treatment model in the agriculture domain. This model increases the system reusability among many different crops types, minimize the effort and cost of expert system development. The proposed model is based on the commonKADS knowledge modeling and apply constructive problem solving a...

It is a well known fact that a wealth of knowledge lies in the head of employees making them one of the most or even the most valuable asset of organisations. But often this knowledge is not documented and organised in knowledge systems as required by the organisation, but informally shared. Of course this is against the organisation’s aim for keeping knowledge reusable as well as easily and pe...

In this paper we study the modelling of intelligent agents to manage organisational memories. We apply the MAS-CommonKADS methodology to the development of an agent-based knowledge management system applied to project administration in a research centre. Particular emphasis is made on the development of the expertise model, where knowledge is expressed as concepts of the CommonKADS Conceptual M...

This paper outlines an approach to semantic correlation in context within the electronic documentation domain. It addresses the problem of quantifying resemblance or similarity between knowledge-based systems (KBSs) such as active documents. An important aspect of correlation is that it depends on context. Correlation between two KBSs can be defined in terms of common knowledge between them (se...

Transfer of research results in production systems requires, among others, that knowledge be explicit and understandable by stakeholders. Such transfer is demanding, as so many researchers have been studying alternative ways to classic approaches such as books and papers that favour knowledge acquisition on behalf of users. In this context, we propose the concept of Knowledge Experience Package...

This paper describes how we have developed a knowledge base for a heuristic application in a clinical domain. Firstly, the knowledge base has been modelled using CommonKADS. Later, the knowledge base has been represented in the language DAML+OIL. We will illustrate in some depth how objects, classes and relationships of a medical domain (modelled following an object-oriented approach) can be sp...

There are some problems that need expertise in order to get a satisfactory solution. Ferryboat carries goods, fresh water, diesil oil, luggage and storing rooms up to its permissible draft, in order to maintain safety according to the international safety regulations. The best weight distribution on Ferryboat needs human expertise to handle many variables, such as the amount of the bunker and f...

Photogrammetric documentation can provide a sound database for the needs of architectural heritage preservation. However, the major part of photogrammetric documentation production is not used for subsequent architectural heritage projects, due to lack of knowledge of photogrammetric documentation accuracy. In addition, there are only a few studies with rigorous analysis of the requirements for...

Traditionally, many types of software documentation, such as API documentation, require a process where a few people write for many potential users. The resulting documentation, when it exists, is often of poor quality and lacks sufficient examples and explanations. In this paper, we report on an empirical study to investigate how Question and Answer (Q&A) websites, such as Stack Overflow, faci...