A Au us st tr ra al li ia a F Fr ra an nc ce e B Be er re en nd d J Ja an n v va an n d de er r Z Zw wa aa ag g T Th he e N Ne et th he er rl la an nd ds s Foreword A research text book aims to provide a unique and long lasting statement about the current thinking in a given subject area. This book delivers exactly this in the area of knowledge engineering, i.e., the design and construction of ...

In recent years, greater global competition is pressuring organizations to produce industrial products with the shortest possible lead times, high quality, and lowest costs. The lifecycle of a product includes many phases such as requirement definition, conceptual design, production, operation, maintenance, and so forth. Each phase in the lifecycle would involve the product information, for exa...

The present paper is about applying competence modeling for a knowledge engineer in the case of the company WBSA Sistemas Inteligentes S.A. The process was based on Lucia and Lepsinger model, by which competences are characterized through the identification of situations and behaviors considered relevant to the engineer performance. As one of the different techniques suggested by the model for ...

We did not touch problems like maintenance of large knowledge-bases, because this requires more experience which can be obtained only from practice of using large knowledge-bases. Finally, it seems that a realistic way to get a universal engineering knowledge-base is by evolutionary development. This reminds us again how people are being taught. The crucial question in this case will be the abi...

Due to their rapidly increasing amount, maintaining mathematical documents more and more becomes an engineering task. In this paper, we combine the projects MMiSS and CDET. That way, we achieve major benefits for mathematical knowledge management: (1) Semantic annotations relate mathematical constructs. This reaches beyond mathematics and thus fosters integration of mathematical content into a ...

By adopting a structured knowledge-level approach, coordination knowledge can be ascribed to groups (societies) of system components (agents) as a whole, rather than to individuals, in order to effectively rationalise complex patterns of interaction within intelligent (multi-agent) systems. Be it either explicitly represented at the symbol-level or hard-coded within specific coordination algori...

In today’s competitive environment, it becomes imperative to look for innovative ideas to bring high quality product to market in a short time, especially in the context of engineering products which is highly knowledge and experience driven. Knowledge based engineering (KBE) will help engineering organizations to efficiently utilize their existing product knowledge base to launch innovative pr...

Two softwares used for sequence alignment and searches are BioJava and BioPerl Comparison between these two tolls is shown. There are several software engineering issues such as software reuse, component-based software engineering, cleanroom engineering. We are discussing here software reuse (reusable objects). What kind and amount of bimolecular data is available and how to encode that data an...

This article outlines conceptualization and implementation of an intelligent system capable of extracting knowledge from databases. Use of hybridized features of both the Rough and Fuzzy Set theory render the developed system flexibility in dealing with discreet as well as continuous datasets. A raw data set provided to the system, is initially transformed in a computer legible format followed ...

In today’s competitive environment, it becomes imperative to look for innovative ideas to bring high quality product to market in a short time, especially in the context of engineering products which is highly knowledge and experience driven. Knowledge based engineering (KBE) will help engineering organizations to efficiently utilize their existing product knowledge base to launch innovative pr...