From knowledge modeling to ontology construction

This paper presents the Knowledge Modeling System (KMS) and its application. The KMS supports users in formalizing and documenting knowledge elements acquired for development of knowledge-based systems. The system was developed based on a knowledge modeling technique called the Inferential Modeling Technique. It facilitates building an application ontology of a domain by explicitly structuring and formalizing both domain and task knowledge of any industrial problem domain. The system also supports knowledge sharing by converting the ontology into the Extensible Mark-Up Language (XML). The tool is compared against some other existing efforts at ontology construction support. Application of the KMS for constructing an application ontology in the domain of monitoring and control of a petroleum separation process is also presented.