Production management performance relies on data specified by engineers that are neither an economists nor production planners. Therefore, production planning and control becomes a complex task. This paper presents a method where engineer's task is not to make decisions but rather to prepare a "road map". Each user will generate routine that meets his needs at the time of need by using KBMS CAP...

K OWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS have outgrown academic applications, and their widespread use in industry has boosted work on the methodology required to design, implement, and validate them. Although knowledge acquisition was a prominent focus of research and practice from the beginning of this industrial push, only recently have the issues of the KBS life cycle and verification and validation been pu...

In this paper, an Integrated C-Object Tool, namely ICOT, is proposed for knowledge-based programming. A major drawback of current rule-based expert system languages is that they have difficulty in handling composite objects as a unit of inference. An object-oriented model is a powerful alternative to complement the drawback. Each of these alone cannot capture all the semantics of knowledge, par...

Knowledge acquisition is recognized as a critical knowledge management process for developing knowledge management systems. For accounting and legal industries, to transform tacit knowledge from the professional experts to explicit knowledge could be problematic as human judgment could vary substantially among the experts. In addition, maintenance of the systems could require regular interactio...

Complex information systems require more and more advanced knowledge representation, management, and discovery tools and techniques, which converge in a collection of intelligent knowledge-based models and methodologies of emerging interest to research communities. This poses new challenges on the issue of devising innovative methodologies and paradigms in the context of a broad framework encom...