General systems problem solving: A basis for systemic knowledge engineering
Starting with the systemic models and formalisms of George Klir [1969, 1989] a new approach to knowledge engineering has been developed, which is appropriately called Systemic Knowledge Engineering. In the 1970's Robert Orchard supplemented Klir's models with his own Problem Solving Roadmap, a morphological grid used to model human problem solving. This approach has led us to develop models of knowledge on a hierarchy of meta-levels providing a powerful way to represent complex knowledge. In this paper we trace the development of Systemic Knowledge Engineering until the present. We then describe some of the latest research efforts, showing how the approach is being used to model cooperative problem solving. we also describe some seminal research being done in automated knowledge translation.
knowledge engineering modeling cooperative problem solving meta-knowledge automated problem solving