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Using semantic links for reuse in Knowledge Base Systems

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Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 1998)

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Constructing Knowledge Base Systems using pre-existing generic components rather than from scratch is a promising way to minimise their development time and facilitate their evolution and maintenance. The concepts commonly used in describing KBS are tasks, PSMs and domains. Developers have to select them from a library, adapt and link them so that they fit their specific needs. In order to help developers to quickly understand, find, and configure the components best suited to their applications, we need to specify languages for describing tasks, PSMs and domains plus the different interactions between them. In this paper, we describe a methodology for structuring a library which integrates different components and relationships defined through levels of description: conceptual, ontological, object and implementation. In order to clarify the kinds of relationship, we propose to introduce at the conceptual level two other new concepts: inter-concept and intra-concept links. The former refer to relationships between different concepts, the latter between similar concepts. We propose to use ontologies to describe these concepts, improving thus their reusability and sharing. We use semantic and transfer links, often applied in databases systems and object modelling, to specify inter- and intra-concept links.

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  1. Parc scientifique Georges Besse, LGI2P/EMA-EERIEP, 30000, Nimes, France

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Messaadia, K., Oussalah, M. (1998). Using semantic links for reuse in Knowledge Base Systems. In: Quirchmayr, G., Schweighofer, E., Bench-Capon, T.J. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1460. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0054540

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