Operationalizing Conceptual Models Based on a Model of Dependencies
Frank Maurer, Jürgen Paulokat · 1994
. In this paper we describe a framework for defining and operationalizing conceptual models of distributed knowledge-based systems which extends published approaches by the notion of "agents" and multiple task decompositions. The main part deals with techniques underlying our distributed interpreter. We show how a client-server-architecture can be implemented which allows prototyping distributed knowledge-based systems. Further we describe our mechanism which manages task interactions and supports dependency-directed backtracking efficiently. 1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Model-based development of knowledge-based systems is the state of the art in knowledge engineering. A well-known approach in Europe is KADS [14] which allows to model knowledge-based systems on a very high level of abstraction. For this methodology, several formal and/or operational languages were developed [5]. These do not support the distribution of tasks among several agents. Our goal is the development of a frame...