John Kingston
Multi-Perspective Modeling for Knowledge Management
and Knowledge Engineering
Ph.D., School of Informatics,
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, October 2007
This thesis incorporates eleven previously published papers, and
two unpublished reports, plus an extensive critical discussion of
issues raised by these papers. It includes worked examples of the
whole CommonKADS methodology, from organisational modelling to system
design. The chapter titles are:
- Introduction
- Multi-Perspective Modeling: A Framework for Knowledge
Representation and Knowledge Management
- Multi-perspective Ontologies: Resolving Common Ontology Problems
- Ontology, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Engineering and the ACM
Classification Scheme
- Multi-Perspective Knowledge Modeling in Knowledge Engineering: the
CommonKADS Methodology
- The Agent and Communication Models
- Knowledge Engineering: the IMPRESS example
- Knowledge Engineering: The Expertise Model
- An Inference Structure for Issue-based Planning
- An Inference Structure for Propose-and-Revise Design
- Knowledge Acquisition techniques for the Expertise Model
- Knowledge Engineering: Design Modeling
- Pragmatic KADS: A methodological approach to a small
knowledge-based systems project
- Critical Review
- Epistemological issues: The Nature of Knowledge
- Multi-Perspective Modeling issues
- Ontological issues
- CommonKADS and the Knowledge Engineering process: The Expertise Model
- CommonKADS and the knowledge engineering process: Design and Implementation
- Summary and future work
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