Soft Systems Models for Knowledge Elicitation and Representation

Abstract

The paper contends that the conceptual modes used in Soft Systems Methodology have an unusual logical status. This enables them to be rendered in modal logic and used as a framework for knowledge elicitation and for the design of knowledge-based systems with learning capability.

Keywords:

• Conceptual Models
• Soft Systems Methodology
• Logico-Linguistic Models
• Non-Monotonic Logic
• Modal Logic
• Knowledge Based Systems
• Prolog