Glossary

A Domain Expert is an End User. In addition, he/she can generate new models based on existing knowledge bases. A Domain Expert cannot modify the knowledge in a knowledge base.

An End User is a user that uses existing solutions with new data. An End User cannot generate new models based on an existing knowledge base. Also, this user cannot modify the knowledge base. This type of user is comparable to someone that uses an existing spreadsheet for computations with new data.

Technical knowledge is all information that can be captured in data, parameters and relations (formulas, equations, procedures, applications), their properties and networks built from these concepts.

A Knowledge Engineer is a Domain Expert. In addition, he/she can create, expand and modify knowledge bases.

[Q]uaestor is a computer program that allows a user in a simple way, to enter relations and to couple existing data, applications and databases. The inference engine then combines, in an intelligent way, the collections of relations, applications, data and databases to solutions for a given problem.This is an interactive process, where Quaestor searches suitable alternatives and proposes these to the user. Depending on the choices a user makes, the result is a model to solve the problem at hand. The finally generated model can be used over and over again with new data, but fixed knowledge.