CommonKADS

CommonKADS is a methodology to support structured knowledge engineering. It has been gradually developed and has been validated by many companies and universities in the context of the European ESPRIT IT Programme. It now is a european de facto standard for knowledge analysis and knowledge-intensive system development, and it has been adopted as a whole or has been partly incorporated in existing methods by many major companies in Europe, as well as in the US and Japan.

CommonKADS enables to spot the opportunities and bottlenecks in how organizations develop, distribute and apply their knowledge resources, and so gives tools for corporate knowledge management. CommonKADS also provides the methods to perform a detailed analysis of knowledge-intensive tasks and processes. Finally, CommonKADS supports the development of knowledge systems that support selected parts of the business process.

CommonKADS describes Knowledge based system development from two perspectives:
*Result perspective: A set of models, of different aspects of the Knowledge based system and its environment, which are continuously improved during a project life-cycle.
*Project management perspective: A risk-driven generic spiral life-cycle model that can be configured into a process adapted to the particular project.

Textbook

The CommonKADS text book is essential reading for those wishing to understand and use the CommonKADS approach:

"Knowledge Engineering and Management: The CommonKADS Methodology (2000) by G. Schreiber, H. Akkermans, A. Anjewierden, R. De Hoog, N. Shadbolt, W. Van De Velde & B. Wielinga. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-19300-0"

ee also

*Knowledge Acquisition and Documentation Structuring
*Knowledge management
*Knowledge engineering
*Expert systems

External links

* http://www.commonkads.uva.nl Most of this page was taken from the University of Amsterdam's CommonKADS page