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International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management

KSEM 2007: Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management pp 460–471Cite as

Knowledge in Product and Performance Support

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The emphasis nowadays on individual information needs and personalization of content as well as the level of complexity involved in some domains necessitates the use of Knowledge Engineering approaches. In particular, product and performance support is a complex and knowledge-intensive domain which despite the advances in the last few years, still suffers from the lack of information and knowledge models. This paper addresses this problem by offering definitions the for the product and performance support domain suggesting a problem-solving approach which uses the proposed knowledge models to adapt existing and construct entirely new solutions.

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Setchi, R., Lagos, N. (2007). Knowledge in Product and Performance Support. In: Zhang, Z., Siekmann, J. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4798. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76719-0_45

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