Knowledge engineering
Most simply, Knowledge Engineering is a not classical engineering of knowledge. It is also a relatively new branch of software engineering.
It is yet the field of skills required to build Knowledge-based systems : databases, datamining, expert systems, decision support systems and geographic information systems. It is also related to the field of symbolic cognitive science and logic (reasoning) as the knowledge produced by the systems built often have content that is structured by our understanding of how human reasoning or logic works.
Knowledge Engineering ontologies, methods and methodologies are governed by most general rules, meta-rules and conceptualisations, such as meta-ontologies and meta-knowledge. Those research and scientific activities are yet in the initial phase of the development.
See also
- Knowledge representation
- Knowledge management
- Knowledge level modeling
- CommonKADS Methodology
- Clinical decision support system
- Connectionist expert system
- On Meta-Knowledge Unified Framework