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Knowledge Engineering: Survey and Future Directions

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XPS-99: Knowledge-Based Systems. Survey and Future Directions (XPS 1999)

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This paper provides an overview of important developments in the field of Knowledge Engineering. We discuss the paradigm shift from a transfer to a modeling approach and discuss two prominent methodological achievements: problem-solving methods and ontologies. To illustrate these and additional concepts we outline several modeling frameworks: CommonKADS, MIKE, PROTÉGÉ-II, and D3. We also discuss two fields which have emerged in the last few years and are promising areas for applying and further developing concepts and methods from Knowledge Engineering: Intelligent Information Integration and Knowledge Management.

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Studer, R., Fensel, D., Decker, S., Benjamins, V.R. (1999). Knowledge Engineering: Survey and Future Directions. In: Puppe, F. (eds) XPS-99: Knowledge-Based Systems. Survey and Future Directions. XPS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1570. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10703016_1

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