http://help.netweaver.rules-of-thumb.com/ 2026-05-21T15:02:54+00:00 http://help.netweaver.rules-of-thumb.com/ http://help.netweaver.rules-of-thumb.com/lib/exe/fetch.php/wiki:dokuwiki-128.png text/html 2020-10-04T20:11:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://help.netweaver.rules-of-thumb.com/doku.php/netweaver:concepts:brief_history?rev=1601842308&do=diff The NetWeaver inference engine was developed at Penn State University by Michael C. Saunders and Bruce J. Miller. Initial development of the system began in 1987, but the system has been steadily evolving ever since that time. It was originally developed for the Macintosh (tm Apple Computer) but has since been ported to Windows, Unix, MacOS, Android, iOS, and WebAssembly. text/html 2020-10-04T20:11:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://help.netweaver.rules-of-thumb.com/doku.php/netweaver:concepts:building_knowledge_bases_with_netweaver?rev=1601842309&do=diff Uses of Dependency Networks Knowledge based reasoning is a general modeling methodology in which phenomena are described in terms of abstract entities and their logical relations to one another. There are two basic reasons for using knowledge based reasoning: text/html 2020-10-04T20:11:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://help.netweaver.rules-of-thumb.com/doku.php/netweaver:concepts:dependency_network?rev=1601842309&do=diff A dependency network is a formal logical representation of how system states at one level of a conceptual model are affected by, or dependent on, other antecedent states. Networks represent things such as system states and processes that are relevant to the description of the system being described by the network structure. A single dependency network is hierarchical in structure. However, NetWeaver knowledge bases generally are networks of such hierarchies. In general, a network is composed of … text/html 2020-10-04T20:11:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://help.netweaver.rules-of-thumb.com/doku.php/netweaver:concepts:fuzzy_logic?rev=1601842309&do=diff Although the term, FuzzyLogic, has a distinctly esoteric ring to it, the concept is actually fairly simple. FuzzyLogic provides a metric for expressing the degree to which an observation on some variable belongs to a set that represents a concept. Alternatively, one might say that FuzzyLogic is concerned with text/html 2020-10-04T20:11:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://help.netweaver.rules-of-thumb.com/doku.php/netweaver:concepts:influence_calculations?rev=1601842309&do=diff (Please note that the following description, while being algorithmically correct, does not necessarily represent the actual order of execution and computational efficiencies employed in NetWeaver. Rather it is described in this fashion to facilitate understanding of the principles used.) text/html 2020-10-04T20:11:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://help.netweaver.rules-of-thumb.com/doku.php/netweaver:concepts:introduction?rev=1601842309&do=diff NetWeaver is a knowledge base development system developed for the Microsoft Windows platforms that provides a graphical environment in which to construct and evaluate knowledge bases. The software provides graphic tools for constructing executable dependency networks that permit both forward and backward chaining reasoning and renders knowledge dependency networks with a fully executable graphic representation so that networks appear just like they would on a white board. Because the infere… text/html 2020-10-04T20:11:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://help.netweaver.rules-of-thumb.com/doku.php/netweaver:concepts:knowledge_base?rev=1601842310&do=diff In recent times, the phrase “knowledge base” has come into popular usage and is now generally taken to mean a body of knowledge about some . As originally used, however, the term meant something much more precise. In particular, in the original sense in which the term was conceived, a knowledge base is a formal logical representation of the entities of interest in some