Making knowledge engineering technology work
V. Richard Benjamins, Dieter Fensel, Christine Pierret-Golbreich, Enrico Motta, Rudi Studer, Bob J. Wielinga · UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) · 1997
The rapid-prototyping approach of the early 1980’s failed to deliver high-quality knowledge-based systems. As a reaction, in the early 90’s, there has been a large activity in the knowledge engineering community to define methodologies for principled knowledge-based system development. These methodologies succeeded in organising the development process as a set of intermediate models of the system to be built, to end in the final implementation. Feedback from industries that use these methodologies in practice reveals, however, that building a high-quality implemented system remains a difficult and error-prone process. In this paper, we outline an approach for assuring the transition of a conceptual model into a final implementation which satisfies particular quality criteria. The approach is based on identifying and supporting adequate transition paths and activities on models in order to achieve particular quality criteria.