In recent years the development of ontologies—explicit formal specifications of the terms in
the domain and relations among them (Gruber 1993)—has been moving from the realm of …

The last decade has seen a considerable growth in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for
operations management with the aim of finding solutions to problems that are increasing in …

Provision of automated support for planning protocol-directed therapy requires a computer
program to take as input clinical data stored in an electronic patient-record system and to …

For1 ontologies to be cost-effectively deployed, we require a clear understanding of the
various ways that ontologies are being used today. To achieve this end, we present a …

In this work I illustrate an approach to the development of a library of problem solving
components for knowledge modelling. This approach is based on an epistemological …

Since knowledge-based systems (KBSs) became a commercially viable solution to real-life
problems in the beginning of the 1980s, increasing attention is paid to ways to develop them …

Problem-solving methods for knowledge-based systems establish the behavior of such
systems by defining the roles in which domain knowledge is used and the ordering of …

PROTÉGÉ-II is a suite of tools and a methodology for building knowledge-based systems
and domain-specific knowledge-acquisition tools. In this paper, we show how PROTÉGÉ-II …

We identify and address a fundamental general problem which we regard as crucial for the
widespread, effective use of decision support systems (DSS) in the future: how can we …

In this paper, we characterize the relationship between abstract problem-solving methods
and the domain-oriented knowledge bases that they use. We argue that, to reuse methods …