Cooperation of KBS development environments and CASE environments

We compare the process of knowledge based system development to the software engineering approach of the more traditional application development. Many similarities can be identiied in the process structures. The most important diierences are in the knowledge acquisition and conceptual modelling of the KBS which have no direct counterpart in the traditional software life cycle. We also study the cooperation of the KBS development environment and ordinary CASE tools. We develop a scheme to support this cooperation. The method is based on transformations between KBS development tools and the repository supporting the CASE toolset. For the case where no repository is available, the scheme can be modiied to use transformations between each KBS development tool and the corresponding CASE tool. Since the phase structures of a KBS project and a SE project are fairly similar, the interface may be relatively simple.