A METHODOLOGY FOR KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND CLASSIFICATION

摘要

Knowledge-based engineering (KBE) has emerged as a valuable tool for many industries seeking to harness company information and knowledge resources. Commercially available KBE systems offer a variety of development languages and interfaces for this purpose. While offering the potential for great savings, these systems frequently require substantial setup to be successful. Companies that do not succeed with KBE technologies fail either because of excessive time invested with limited return or because of lack of knowledge engineering skills. Applying one's knowledge comes as second nature to many. Discovering, describing, and capturing this knowledge is difficult. This paper presents a methodology that has been developed to assist the discovery, classification, and capture of design knowledge. An example problem is included and demonstrates the eleven steps of the methodology. It is suggested that this methodology will assist the knowledge mining requirements for implementation of applications in any KBE system.