Reconfigurable Platform for Knowledge Management Based on Ontology
Yinglin Wang, Weidong Wang, Zongjiang Wang, Tong Ping, Meng Jiao Xu, Shensheng Zhang, Yali Zhang · Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems · 2003
Building a reconfigurable knowledge-management tool can save the cost of developing different tools for different enterprises. Based on the common and special features of requirements of knowledge-management, a new framework of reconfigurable knowledge-management systems is proposed by using ontology, knowledge process templates and case-based reasoning methods. In this framework, the knowledge instances are viewed as objects of certain concepts. New classes of knowledge are created through ontology configuration and evolution, so the problem of fixed types of knowledge in traditional approaches is solved. By means of the ontology and the knowledge process templates, the user interfaces can be automatically generated according to an inherent mechanism and the different types of knowledge can be processed accordingly. At last, issues such as the cooperative knowledge production with workflow systems are briefly discussed.