Combining paradigms in knowledge engineering

摘要

A system supporting knowledge engineering is presented that combines hypermedia, knowledge acquisition, expert system shell and database systems to provide an integrated end-user environment. The integration is achieved through inter-application communication protocols operating between four programs designed independently for stand-alone use. The system supports a wide variety of forms and representations of knowledge from the highly informal to the highly computational. It is extremely non-modal and allows knowledge acquisition and knowledge consultation to be combined in a variety of ways. In particular, the acquisition tool which may then be re-analyzed, possibly resulting in changed advice.