Beyond Knowledge Engineering  

作　　者：陆汝钤 金芝 

机构地区：[1]Academy of Mathematics and System Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P.R. China [2]Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P.R. China [3]Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University, Shanghai 200333, P.R. China [4]Beijing Key Lab of Multimedia and Intelligent Software, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100083, P.R. China

出　　处：《Journal of Computer Science & Technology》2006年第5期790-799,共10页计算机科学技术学报（英文版）

基　　金：Partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant Nos. 69733020, 69983010, 60233010 and 60496324）, the National Grand Fundamental Research 973 Program of China （Grant No. 2002CB312004）, the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and MADIS of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Acknowledgements The authors are very thankful to Profs. Fei-Yue Wang, Hong Mei, Jian Lii, XiaoGuang Yang and Dr. Lin Liu for their fruitful discussions on knowware. The authors also thank the anonymous referees for their valuable comments, which have helped to improve the manuscript.

摘　　要：Knowledge engineering stems from E. A. Figenbaum＇s proposal in 1977, but it will enter a new decade with the new challenges. This paper first summarizes three knowledge engineering experiments we have undertaken to show possibility of separating knowledge development from intelligent software development. We call it the ICAX mode of intelligent application software generation. The key of this mode is to generate knowledge base, which is the source of intelligence of ICAX software, independently and parallel to intelligent software development. That gives birth to a new and more general concept ＂knowware＂. Knowware is a commercialized knowledge module with documentation and intellectual property, which is computer operable, but free of any built-in control mechanism, meeting some industrial standards and embeddable in software/hardware. The process of development, application and management of knowware is called knowware engineering. Two different knowware life cycle models are discussed： the furnace model and the crystallization model. Knowledge middleware is a class of software functioning in all aspects of knowware life cycle models. Finally, this paper also presents some examples of building knowware in the domain of information system engineering.Knowledge engineering stems from E. A. Figenbaum＇s proposal in 1977, but it will enter a new decade with the new challenges. This paper first summarizes three knowledge engineering experiments we have undertaken to show possibility of separating knowledge development from intelligent software development. We call it the ICAX mode of intelligent application software generation. The key of this mode is to generate knowledge base, which is the source of intelligence of ICAX software, independently and parallel to intelligent software development. That gives birth to a new and more general concept ＂knowware＂. Knowware is a commercialized knowledge module with documentation and intellectual property, which is computer operable, but free of any built-in control mechanism, meeting some industrial standards and embeddable in software/hardware. The process of development, application and management of knowware is called knowware engineering. Two different knowware life cycle models are discussed： the furnace model and the crystallization model. Knowledge middleware is a class of software functioning in all aspects of knowware life cycle models. Finally, this paper also presents some examples of building knowware in the domain of information system engineering.

关 键 词：knowledge engineering knowware knowware engineering knowledge middleware domain knowware 

分 类 号：TP182[自动化与计算机技术—控制理论与控制工程]