Guus Schreiber
Bob Wielinga
Joost Breuker
Description
KADS is a structured methodology for the development of knowledge based systems which has been adopted throughout the world by academic
and industrial professionals alike. KADS approaches development as a modeling activity. Two key characteristics of KADS are the use of
multiple models to cope with the complexity of knowledge engineering and the use of knowledge-level descriptions as an immediate model
between system design and expertise data. The result is that KADS enables effective KBS construction by building a computational model
of desired behavior for a particular problem domain.
KADS contains three section: the Theoretical Basis of KADS, Languages and Tools,
and Applications. Together they form a comprehensive sourcebook of the how and why of the KADS methodology. KADS will be required reading
for all academic and industrial professionals concerned with building knowledge-based systems. It will also be a valuable source for
students of knowledge acquisition and KBS.
