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2016 , Volume 21, ¹ 4, p.16-36

Bychkov I.V., Dorodnykh N.O., Yurin A.Y.

Approach to the development of software components for generation of knowledge bases based on conceptual models

The paper addresses the problem of improving the process of the design of intelligent systems and their components. The main problem in designing intelligent systems is a creation of knowledge bases. The efficiency of this process can be improved by the transformation of conceptual (information) models into program codes of knowledge bases. In turn, the conceptual models can be created with the aid of different CASE tools or software for cognitive and ontological modelling. Therefore, the creation of the unified approach (a technology) for developing software components for intelligent systems that provide generation of knowledge bases by the transformation of conceptual models is an actual problem. In this paper, the technology for the automated development of software components providing generation of knowledge bases as a result of the transformation of conceptual models is proposed. The main elements of technology are: the template of the software component for the models’ translation; domain-specific (declarative) language for representation of translations - Transformation Model Representation Language (TMRL); method for development of software components based on emulation the template of the software component for the translation and specialization of a model; the conceptual architecture of the service-oriented software and its main elements, the software is based on the principles of the SaaS-model (Software as a Service). The proposed technology allows building of software components for knowledge extraction from various conceptual models as well as code generation for knowledge bases in the certain knowledge representation language. The conceptual models presented in XML are used as the source models (e. g., UML-models according to XMI, or concept maps according to XTM, etc.). CLIPS and OWL are selected as the target knowledge representation languages. The future work will focus on developing the autonomous software components (services) for the third-party intelligent systems.

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Keywords: Software components development, intelligent system, conceptual model, knowledge base, model transformation

Author(s):
Bychkov Igor Vyacheslavovich
Dr. , Academician RAS, Professor
Position: Director
Office: Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: 664033, Russia, Irkutsk, Lermontova st., 134
Phone Office: (3952) 45-30-61
E-mail: idstu@icc.ru
SPIN-code: 5816-7451

Dorodnykh Nikita Olegovich
PhD.
Position: Senior Research Scientist
Office: Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: 664033, Russia, Irkutsk, Lermontov St. 134
Phone Office: (3952) 45-30-19
E-mail: tualatin32@mail.ru
SPIN-code: 1922-2224

Yurin Alexander Yurievich
Dr. , Associate Professor
Position: Research Scientist
Office: Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: 664033, Russia, Irkutsk, Lermontov St. 134
Phone Office: (3952) 45-30-19
E-mail: iskander@icc.ru
SPIN-code: 5830-7930

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Bychkov I.V., Dorodnykh N.O., Yurin A.Y. Approach to the development of software components for generation of knowledge bases based on conceptual models // Computational technologies. 2016. V. 21. ¹ 4. P. 16-36
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