Description Database Systems and Knowledgebase Systems share many common principles. Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) stimulates the exchange of ideas and interaction between these two related fields of interest. DKE reaches a worldwide audience of researchers, designers, managers and users. The major aim of the journal is to identify, investigate and analyze the underlying principles in the ...

This paper argues for using process models as the primary means to structure and organize knowledge in software organizations. We discuss how process models can support project planning and illustrate how a process-centered organization of knowledge helps the individual developer to find appropriate background information for his current task during process enactment. The paper concludes with a...

Recently, the development of distributed knowledge systems has become more attractive due to the existence of new social semantic applications such as semantic knowledge wikis. User-friendly tools like wikis allow for a simple acquisition of formal knowledge, but also pose new challenges in knowledge engineering. In this paper, we reconsider classic criteria for verification in the light of a d...

the experience of the French central Bank in terms of developing knowledge-based systems have led us to elaborate an environment of knowledge modelisation called CERISE. In this approach, we introduce a notion of module, issued from software engineering. This notion is fully formalised using algebraic abstract types. The main difference between this formalisation and the earlier ones (see (ML)2...