<I>Common</I>KADS in the VUB AI lab

KADS-II       ESPRIT Project P5248

CommonKADS is the name of a comprehensive methodology for the development of knowledge based systems. It is the result of the ESPRIT project KADS-II (P5248) which was itself a follow up on a previous KADS project. CommonKADS is now developed to a point where it can become a European standard for KBS development. It covers all aspects of a KBS project (strategic management, project management, integration, knowledge acquisition and software development) convered by a single spiral life-cycle. Have a look at the CommonKADS information from the University of Amsterdam for more information about the project.

The CommonKADS wizzards from the VUB AI-Lab are Walter Van de Velde, Ronald Schrooten, Brigitte Honig, Cuno Duursma (now at TNO, The Netherlands) and Agnar Aamodt (back in Trondheim, Norway). In total over 40 people are working in the KADS-II project!

The following documents are available through WWW:

The KADS knowledge modelling approach. by B. J. Wielinga, W. Van de Velde, A. Th. Schreiber, and J. M. Akkermans. In R. Mizoguchi, H. Motoda, J. Boose, B. Gaines, and R. Quinlan, editors, Proceedings of the 2nd Japanese Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop, pages 23-42. Hitachi, Advanced Research Laboratory, Hatoyama, Saitama, Japan, 1992.
Towards a unification of knowledge modelling approaches. by B. J. Wielinga, W. Van de Velde, A. Th. Schreiber, and J. M. Akkermans. In Jean-Marc David, Jean-Paul Krivine, and Reid Simmons, editors, Second Generation Expert Systems, pages 299-335. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, Germany, 1993.
Role Limiting methods for the Conceptual Model Library by Cuno Duursma.
Sabena flight schedule case: an example of a design model by Ronald Schrooten. You can preview the postscript version if you click here. If you want to download the ps file you can click here .
Task Features and their Use in CommonKADS by Agnar Aamodt, Bart Benus, Cuno Duursma, Christine Tomlinson, Ronald Schrooten and Walter Van de Velde.
The CommonKADS Library by Agnar Aamodt, Bert Bredeweg, Joost Breuker, Cuno Duursma, Christiane Lockenhoff, Klas Orsvarn, Jan Top, Andre Valente and Walter Van de Velde (version 1, May 4, 1992)
Operationalising Knowledge Models by Cuno Duursma and Walter Van de Velde (editors), with extensive contributions from Guus Schreber and Peter Terpstra (version 1, October 22, 1992)
Machine Learning Issues in CommonKADS by Walter Van de Velde and Agnar Aamodt (version 3, January 31, 1992)
Generic Library Facility: Specification by Walter Van de Velde (version 3, December 22, 1993)
Generic Library Facility: Guidelines by Walter Van de Velde (version 1, October 21, 1993)
Task Model definition and Task Analysis process by Cuno Duursma (version 1.1c, December 15, 1993)
Configuration Support Environment Functional Specification by Ronald Schrooten and Cuno Duursma (version 1.0, June 1, 1994)
Design Model and Process by Walter Van de Velde (Editor) with contributions from Cuno Duursma, Guus Schreiber, Peter Terpstra, Ronald Schrooten, Vassilios Golfonopolos, Olle Olsson, Ulf Sundim and Maria Gustafson (version 2.1, October 4, 1994)