The notion of role in conceptual modelling
This work addresses the knowledge engineering process for researchers in AI and conceptual modeling, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing analyses without introducing a new paradigm or method.
The paper analyzes the notion of knowledge role in conceptual modeling, comparing how different approaches handle the relationship between problem-solving methods and domain models, and proposes developments to improve this relationship.
In this article we analyse the notion of knowledge role. First of all, we present how the relationship between problem solving methods and domain models is tackled in different approaches. We concentrate on how they cope with this issue in the knowledge engineering process. Secondly, we introduce several properties which can be used to analyse, characterise and define the notion of role. We evaluate and compare the works exposed previously following these dimensions. This analysis suggests some developments to better exploit the relationship between reasoning and domain knowledge. We present them in a last section.