Course Instructor: Liliana Dobrica

Syllabus:

Knowledge has become one of the most important factors of production in business terms, because the cost of obtaining knowledge and the value of having knowledge have increased. Knowledge is treated explicitly, may be used as a means to obtain social and economic benefits, and, furthermore, knowledge may be used to produce more knowledge.

The basic objectives of the course aim at informing students on the activities to acquire knowledge from various sources, to understand it properly, to transform it into a form suitable for applying various knowledge representation formalisms, to encode it in the knowledge base using appropriate representation techniques, languages and tools to verify and validate it and to maintain it over time.

This discipline includes the following topics: a comprehensive definition of the knowledge engineering, higher level view of knowledge engineering techniques and modeling, how conceptual modeling relates to knowledge engineering techniques, ontological engineering, knowledge management, sharing knowledge networks and services ecosystems issues.