The benefits of reuse have long been recognized in the knowledge engineering community where the dream of creating knowledge-based systems on-the-fly from libraries of reusable components is still to be fully realised. In this paper we present a two stage methodology for creating knowledge-based systems: first reusing domain knowledge by mapping it, where appropriate, to the requirements of a generic problem solver; and secondly using this mapped knowledge and the requirements of the problem solver to "drive" the acquisition of the additional knowledge it needs. For example, suppose we have available a knowledge-based systems which is composed of a propose-and-revise problem solver linked with an appropriate knowledge base/ontology from the elevator domain. Then to create a diagnostic knowledge-based systems in the same domain, we require to map relevant information from the elevator knowledge base/ontology, such as component information, to a diagnostic problem solver, and ...
David Corsar, Derek H. Sleeman