Knowledge Engineering: Principles and Methods
Data and Knowledge Engineering, 25 (1-2):
161--197 (March 1998)Abstract
This paper gives an overview of the development of the field of Knowledge Engineering over the last 15 years. We discuss
the paradigm shift from a transfer view to a modeling view and describe two approaches which considerably shaped research
in Knowledge Engineering: Role-limiting Methods and Generic Tasks. To illustrate various concepts and methods which
evolved in recent years we describe three modeling frameworks: CommonKADS, MIKE and PROTI~Gt~-II. This description
is supplemented by discussing some important methodological developments in more detail: specification languages for
knowledge-based systems, problem-solving methods and ontologies. We conclude by outlining the relationship of
Knowledge Engineering to Software Engineering, Information Integration and Knowledge Management.
