Knowware:A Commodity Form of Knowledge
Knowledge and Intelligence have a much closed relationship.Knowledge is both the crystallization and source of intelligence.Knowledge embodies intelligence,and intelligence emerges from knowledge.Every ICAX system (Intelligent Computer Aided X,where X may mean any domain,such as education,design or manufacturing,etc.),such as ICAI (I = Instruction),ICAD (D = Design),ICAM (M = Manufacturing),etc.,has its intelligence based on a content rich knowledge base.In this sense,we may have the formula:ICAX = CAX + X knowledge base.Using this formula,we have developed a methodology of generating knowledge based system automatically.The core idea is to develop a domain-oriented pseudo-natural language (PNL for short),where PNL means a normalized subset of some natural language,which can be easily parsed by computer.Each domain expert may use this language to write down his knowledge and experience.A PNL compiler then compiles programs written in this PNL to form a domain knowledge base.Combined with a preexisting system shell,a prototype of the knowledge based system is automatically generated.We have applied this idea to automatic generation of ICAI and ICASE (SE = Software Engineering) systems.The following problem is how to generalize this idea.Can the development of knowledge base and system shell be done by different people or groups? Can the knowledge base be easily renewed or even become an independent commodity? Finally,we have got an answer to this problem.The commodity form of such knowledge base is knowware.In general,knowware is a commodity form of knowledge.
Ruqian Lu
Academy of Mathematics and System Science,The Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100080,P.R.China
国际会议
成都
英文
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2008-05-17（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）