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Quaestor is a software framework for developing and using knowledge based systems containing computational methods and data. With With these systems, you are able to streamline analysis, design and engineering processes.
The general architecture can be sketched as follows:
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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).
Knowledge-based systems in Quaestor enable research, engineering and design departments to simplify the tasks of:
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This makes Quaestor one of the most powerful environments currently available for the development and use of knowledge-based computational models, applications and configurators.
Quaestor can be used in three ways, depending on your personal requirements and user license. See user See user levels documentation for documentation for more detail:
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Please note that in addition to providing single values for parameters, the user can provide ranges of values for several parameters. This makes it possible to compute matrices of parameter variations to perform trade-off studies or to check the robustness of solutions.
The software can be purchased with an annual, non-exclusive, non-transferable, user license.
A demo version of Quaestor is available for free. This version provides full user rights up to 100 frames per knowledge base (i.e. 100 parameters, relations and constraints in total).
The fee for an annual user licence will depend on (A) the user modus of the software (stand-alone or concurrent use) and (B) the user level (End-User, Domain Expert, Knowledge Engineer).
You can use Quaestor systems in two modes:
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Quaestor systems can be used in two levels:
In addition you have a development level:
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A “Knowledge engineer” (KE) has full rights to develop and maintain knowledge bases. Knowledge bases protected by other knowledge engineers can still only be used as Domain expert or End user.
For more details see also: User levels and rights
These articles give more insight and show the power of Quaestor.