Knowledge Based Approach to Project Prototyping

Decision making supported by task-oriented software tools plays a pivotal role in modern enterprises, because commercially available ERP systems are unable to respond in an interactive online/real-time mode. It opens up for a new generation of decision support system (DSS) that enable a fast prototyping of production flows in multi-project environment as well as integrating approaches to project execution evaluation. In that context our goal is to provide a knowledge base approach allowing one to be independent of context or representation data as well as allowing for the design of an interactive and taskoriented DSS. The assumed knowledge base mode of specifying a production system leads to solving a logic-algebraic method (LAM) decision problem. The results obtained are implemented in a software package supporting project management in SMEs. Illustrative example of the ILOG-based software application is provided.