Perspective Filters as a Means for Interoperability Among Information-Centric Decision-Support Systems
Kym Jason Pohl, Jens G. Pohl · DigitalCommons - CalPoly (California State Polytechnic University) · 2001
If the key to symbolic reasoning is representation then it certainly follows that the foundation of expert-system-based, decision-support systems is the rich manner in which the entities, concepts, and notions relevant to the domain space(s) are represented [4,10].This requirement can be accommodated through the development and employment of one or more ontologies.An ontology in this sense can be defined as a relationship-rich, typically object-based representation of the entities, concepts, and notions relevant to the domain(s) of operation.The problem arises when two or more of these systems, each operating over a potentially extensive ontology attempt to collaborate with each other.While collaboration within each of these systems may be based on very high-level descriptions of entities, concepts and notions, it will undoubtedly be subject to various application-specific biases.