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Description

CommonKADS is the leading methodology to support structured knowledge engineering. It has been gradually developed and has been validated by many companies and universities in the context of the European ESPRIT IT Programme. It now is the European de facto standard for knowledge analysis and knowledge-intensive system development, and it has been adopted as a whole or has been partly incorporated in existing methods by many major companies in Europe, as well as in the US and Japan. Knowledge engineering is a relatively new branch of software engineering. ... ESPRIT is engaged in the sourcing, retail and wholesale distribution and licensing of quality and lifestyle products designed under the globally recognized ESPRIT brand name. ...


CommonKADS enables to spot the opportunities and bottlenecks in how organizations develop, distribute and apply their knowledge resources, and so gives tools for corporate knowledge management. CommonKADS also provides the methods to perform a detailed analysis of knowledge-intensive tasks and processes. Finally, CommonKADS supports the development of knowledge systems that support selected parts of the business process. Knowledge is the awareness and understanding of facts, truths or information gained in the form of experience or learning (a posteriori), or through deductive reasoning (a priori). ... Knowledge management (KM) is the organization, creation, sharing and flow of knowledge within organizations. ... A business process is a recipe for achieving a commercial result. ...


Textbook

The CommonKADS text book is essential reading for those wishing to understand and use the CommonKADS approach:


Knowledge Engineering and Management: The CommonKADS Methodology (2000) by A. Th. Schreiber, J. Akkermans, A. Anjewierden, R. De Hoog, N. Shadbolt, W. Van De Velde & B. Wielinga. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-19300-0


See Also

KADS ia a structured way of developing knowledge-based systems (expert systems). ... Knowledge management (KM) is the organization, creation, sharing and flow of knowledge within organizations. ... Knowledge engineering is a relatively new branch of software engineering. ... An expert system is a class of computer programs developed by researchers in artificial intelligence during the 1970s and applied commercially throughout the 1980s. ...

External Links

Most of this page was taken from the University of Amsterdam's CommonKADS page: http://www.commonkads.uva.nl From Athenaeum Illustre to University In January 1632 two internationally acclaimed scientists, Caspar Barlaeus and Gerardus Vossius, held their inaugural speech in the Athenaeum Illustre - the illustrious school - which had its seat in the 14th-century Agnietenkapel. ...


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Throughout the development of this generic approach, it was applied to different domains and achieved great success, but this method has not yet been used in the areas of planning, scheduling, and resource allocation.
CommonKADS is one of the building methods of KB systems, and it views the construction of knowledge-based systems as a modeling activity.
On the other hand, CommonKADS aided KBS software development is capable of decreasing the size of the application by applying distributed function approach.
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