A strategic reuse framework for high-performance knowledge bases development

In recent years, researchers from knowledge-based system (KBS) fields have pushed toward rapidly develop a reusable knowledge base with a greater flexibility and adaptability to empower domain experts developing their own domain-oriented high performance knowledge-based systems. We develop a strategic-reuse system that takes as input a declarative description of a domain, and then automatically generates as output an efficient, domain-specific KBS development environment along with a reusable knowledge base library. A test plan can be further developed based on the relationships between the specific KBS performance requirement and the KB components' strategic characteristics. This paper focuses on developing such a strategic-reuse framework to characterize KB components in terms of four generic strategic features: computational efficiency, interactive capability, modeling flexibility, and knowledge usability.