Partitioning and composing knowledge

摘要

This paper argues for an approach which places the management of large knowledge bases into a comprehensive, engineering-oriented framework, and reports on an initial demonstration of these concepts. The underlying concepts are well-recognized as being effective in many areas of science: 1.1. Partitioning of the knowledge into manageable segments.2.2. Rules for the composition of these segments.3.3. A language to provide access to these segments, control their composition, and provide the power of the system in a flexible and clear way.The motivation for this research is to deal with problems that are beginning to occur in large knowledge-based systems. As current developments of such systems lead to further growth, we foresee that their management needs will exceed the capabilities of the existing system infrastructure. In particular, we find that in the past issues related to knowledge maintenance have been ignored. Maintenance of knowledge-bases is critical if the systems are to persist.