An Object‐Oriented Model for Processing Earthquake Engineering Knowledge
Hojjat Adeli, S. L. HUNG · Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering · 1990
Lessons learned from destructive earthquakes are recorded in numerous printed documents. This article presents an object-oriented model for processing the knowledge of earthquake damage and structural behavior electronically. The model has been implemented in C++ in a prototype system, called OQUAKE, on a SUN workstation. Knowledge representation in OQUAKE is through a combination of frames and scripts. Two general-purpose object classes provide support for developing and managing frame and script knowledge bases. Frames and scripts integrated into an object-oriented model provide the most effective way of representing stereotypical sequences of knowledge in a text-based knowledge domain.