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Formal specification languages in knowledge and software engineering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Dieter Fensel
Dieter Fensel
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Department SWI, University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands (email: fensel@swi.psy.uva.nl)
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Abstract

During the last few years, a number of formal specification languages for knowledge-based systems (KBS) have been developed. Characteristics of such systems are a complex knowledge base and an inference engine which uses this knowledge to solve a given problem. Languages for KBS have to cover both these aspects. They have to provide a means to specify a complex and large amount of knowledge and they have to provide a means to specify the dynamic reasoning behaviour of a KBS. Nevertheless, KBS are just a specific type of software system. Therefore, it seems quite natural to compare formal languages for specifying KBS with formal languages which were developed by the software community for specifying software systems. That is the subject of this paper.

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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , December 1995 , pp. 361 - 404
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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