Paper Info
Title
The KB Paradigm and Its Application to Interactive Configuration.
Abstract
The knowledge base (KB) paradigm aims to express domain knowledge in a rich formal language, and to use this domain knowledge as a KB to solve various problems and tasks that arise in the domain by applying multiple forms of inference. As such, the paradigm applies a strict separation of concerns between information and problem solving. In this paper, we analyze the principles and feasibility of the KB paradigm in the context of an important class of applications: interactive configuration problems. In interactive configuration problems, a configuration of interrelated objects under constraints is searched, where the system assists the user in reaching an intended configuration. It is widely recognized in industry that good software solutions for these problems are very difficult to develop. We investigate such problems from the perspective of the KB paradigm. We show that multiple functionalities in this domain can be achieved by applying different forms of logical inferences on a formal specification of the configuration domain. We report on a proof of concept of this approach in a real-life application with a banking company.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1017/S1471068416000156
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LOGIC PROGRAMMING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
interactive configuration,knowledge base paradigm,inferences,applications of declarative systems
Journal
17
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1471-0684
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
31
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pieter Van Hertum131.78
Ingmar Dasseville241.47
Gerda Janssens364458.82
Marc Denecker41626106.40