The customer is the core element of business based on current market situation, even for industrial equipment which customers’ requirements are now very various. It means that the inside processes of the manufacturer should adjust to customer’s requirements: the company must be very flexible among other properties. The challenge is that the flexibility comes from the management of the knowledge...

In this paper, we present a deductive object-oriented knowledge base system, called R-DEVICE, which imports RDF data into the CLIPS production rule system as objects and uses a deductive rule language for querying and reasoning about them. In our model properties of resources are not scattered across several triples as in most other RDF storage and querying systems, resulting in increased query...

Conditionals of one kind or another are the dominant form of knowledge representation in Artificial Intelligence. However, despite the fact that they play a key role in such different formalisms as production systems and logic programming, there has been little effort made to study the relationships between these different kinds of conditionals. In this paper I present a framework that attempts...

In a text-produqtion system high and special demands are placed on the grammar and the lexicon. This paper will view these comDonents in such a system (overview in section 1). First, the subcomponente dealing with semantic information and with syntactic information will be presented se!:arataly (section 2). The probtems of relating these two types of information are then identified (section 3)....

This paper describes a language understanding module for spoken dialogue systems producing frame based semantic output. The presented approach adapts ideas from production systems to the task of language understanding. It interleaves in a new manner template-driven cascaded word-to-frame transformation with syntactic analysis. The advantages over conventional parsers are the flexible output str...