Introduction

This is the Quaestor User's Guide home page.

Quaestor is a software framework to both develop and use knowledge bases containing computational methods and data. The combination of a project (a project file), a knowledge base (a knowledge file) and the Quaestor program makes a knowledge-based system to streamline design and engineering processes (workflows).

This user documentation is primarily targeted on the use of Quaestor as the development platform for knowledge based engineering. Although this information is also very interesting for users (Domain experts and End-Users), they should primarily rely on the documentation provided inside the knowledge based system or provided separately as a "Getting started" documentation.

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Documentation overview

General information

• What is Quaestor
• User levels and rights
• Starting Quaestor
• Graphical User Interface overview

Learning Quaestor

• From an application perspective:

  Application types	Examples and references
  Classic knowledge based applications	Classic: KOAS, MVR
  Scenario based applications	Scenario: QDESP, QSTAP
  Taxonomy based applications	Taxonomy: DeSIS3, QPROP, QRAPID
  Web-based applications	Web-based: e-MARIN, RISING

• From an user level perspective:

  Knowledge Engineer (KE)	Domain Expert (DE)	End User (EU)
  Background	Background	Background
  Graphical User Interface	Graphical User Interface	Graphical User Interface
  Tutorials	Tutorials
  Tips & Tricks
  Example knowledge bases

• From a development perspective:

  Overviews	Advanced	More resources
  General systax	Knowledge documentation	Background papers
  Functions	Using Quaestor objects
  Attributes	Data use and management
  Constants	Image management
  Dimensions	Use of external/satellite programs
  	Knowledge and knowledge base protection
  	Testing Quaestor and Quaestor based systems

Background papers

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