Abstract
This paper presents an integrated environment, called MetaPlex, for organization and information systems development. The kernel of MetaPlex is a knowledge base management system which captures the semantic primitives of a domain at the meta level and uses these primitives to describe target systems. Three levels of abstraction are used in MetaPlex for representing knowledge: the axiomatic, median, and instance levels. The MetaPlex Language Definition System is used to name the object types in the domain of interest and to define the attributes, relations, and descriptions which can be used by these object types. The structural knowledge of the domain in general is thus captured at the median level. Knowledge of the domain captured at the median level is used by the MetaPlex Specification System to define a target system at the instance level. A rule-based inference engine is embedded in the MetaPlex environment as an intelligent assistant to help end users.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages | 141-151 |
Number of pages | 11 |
State | Published - Dec 1 1989 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information Systems - Boston, MA, USA Duration: Dec 4 1989 → Dec 6 1989 |
Other
Other | Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information Systems |
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City | Boston, MA, USA |
Period | 12/4/89 → 12/6/89 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Engineering(all)