A library of problem-solving components based on the integration of the search paradigm with task and method ontologies

✍ Scribed by ENRICO MOTTA; ZDENEK ZDRAHAL

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 601 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1071-5819
• DOI: 10.1006/ijhc.1998.0214

✦ Synopsis

In this paper we investigate the reuse of tasks and problem-solving methods and we propose a model of how to organize a library of reusable components for knowledgebased systems. In our approach, we first describe a class of problems by means of a task ontology. Then we instantiate a generic model of problem solving as search in terms of the concepts in the task ontology, to derive a task-specific, but method-independent, problem-solving model. Individual problem-solving methods can then be (re-)constructed from the generic problem-solving model through a process of ontology/method specialization and configuration. The resulting library of reusable components enjoys a clear theoretical basis and has been tested successfully on a number of applications. In the paper, we illustrate the approach in the area of parametric design.