The CommonKADS methodology is a collection of structured methods for build ing knowledge based systems A key component of CommonKADS is the library of generic inference models which can be applied to tasks of speci ed types These generic models can either be used as frameworks for knowledge acquisition or to verify the completeness of models developed by analysis of the domain However the gener...

In multi-agent systems, the knowledge of agents about other agents’ knowledge often plays a pivotal role in their decisions. In many applications, this knowledge involves uncertainty. This uncertainty may be about the state of the world or about the other agents’ knowledge. In this thesis, we answer the question of how to model this probabilistic knowledge and reason about it efficiently. Modal...

Product configuration is a major commercial application of knowledge-based systems, and joint configuration by multiple business partners is becoming a key application in today’s highly specialized economy. The required integration of configuration knowledge is a challenging task due to the variety of knowledge representation formalisms used in commercial configurators. Ontology languages such ...

in today’s global economy, the fundamental attribute of competitiveness have been driven from pecuniary capital to knowledge capital so that knowledge is known as the unique strategic resource to acquire competitive advantage. therefore, businesses that efficiently utilize existing knowledge within their organizations are expected to gain comparative advantage over their competitors. this resea...