TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Perkuhn, Rainer
ED  - Plaza, Enric
ED  - Benjamins, Richard
T1  - Reuse of Problem-Solving Methods and Family Resemblances
T2  - Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management. 10th European Workshop, EKAW '97 Sant Feliu de Guixols, Catalonia, Spain October 15–18, 1997 Proceedings
N2  - In the last years a common notion of a Problem-Solving Method (PSM) emerged from different knowledge engineering frameworks. As a generic description of the dynamic behaviour of knowledge based systems PSMs are favored subjects of reuse. Up to now, most investigations on the reuse of PSMs focus on static features and methods as objects of reuse. By this, they ignore a lot of information of how the PSM was developed that is, in principle, entailed in the different parts of a conceptual model of a PSM.

In this paper the information of the different parts of PSMs is reconsidered from a reuse process point of view. A framework for generalized problem-solving methods is presented that describes the structure of a category of methods based on family resemblances. These generalized methods can be used to structure libraries of PSMs and - in the process of reuse - as a means to derive an incarnation, i.e. a member of its family of PSMs.

For illustrating the ideas, the approach is applied to the task rsp. problem type of parametric design.
T3  - Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence - 1319 
KW  - Problem Solving Methods
KW  - Reuse
KW  - Similarities
KW  - Categories of PSMs
Y1  - 1997
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-49303
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-49303
SN  - 3-540-63592-0
SB  - 3-540-63592-0
SP  - 174
EP  - 189
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin/Heidelberg
ER  -