Paper Info
Title
Meta-knowledge in systems design: panacea … or undelivered promise?
Abstract
In this study we present a review of the emerging field of meta-knowledge components as practised over the past decade among a variety of practitioners. We use the artificially defined term “meta-knowledge” to encompass all those different but overlapping notions used by the artificial intelligence and software engineering communities to represent reusable modelling frameworks: ontologies, problem-solving methods, patterns and experience factories and bases, to name but a few. We then elaborate on how meta-knowledge is deployed in the context of system's design to improve its reliability by consistency-checking, enhance its reuse potential and manage its knowledge-sharing. We speculate on its usefulness and explore technologies for supporting deployment of meta-knowledge. We argue that, despite the different approaches being followed in systems design by divergent communities, meta-knowledge is present in all cases, in a tacit or explicit form, and its utilisation depends on pragmatic aspects which we try to identify and critically review on criteria of effectiveness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1017/S0269888900004033
Knowledge Eng. Review
Keywords
Field
DocType
systems design,problem-solving methods,past decade,ontologies,design types,undelivered promise,pat- terns,pragmatic aspect,meta-knowledge component,experienceware,explicit form,artificial intelligence,cost-eective analysis.,experience factory,overlapping notion,different approach,divergent community,artificial intelligent,software engineering,patterns,system design
Ontology (information science),Software deployment,Reuse,Computer science,Systems design,Panacea (medicine),Knowledge management,Management science
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
4
0269-8889
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.91
55
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yannis Kalfoglou1105774.48
Tim Menzies22886151.44
Klaus-dieter Althoff3991147.58
Enrico Motta44216391.29