Operationalizing Conceptual Models Based on a Model of Dependencies

* University of Kaiserslautern, AG Expertensysteme / Prof. Richter, P.O. Box 3049, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany, e-Mail: {maurer, paulokat}@informatik.uni-kl.de Abstract. In this paper we describe a framework for defining and operationalizing conceptual models of distributed knowledge-based systems which extends published approaches by the notion of „agents“ and multiple task decompositions. The main part deals with techniques underlying our distributed interpreter. We show how a client-server-architecture can be implemented which allows prototyping distributed knowledge-based systems. Further we describe our mechanism which manages task interactions and supports dependency-directed backtracking efficiently.