APPLIED RESEARCH OF KBS TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADVANCED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS

IN A PROCESS ANALOGOUS TO APPLIED RESEARCH, THE INNOVATION PROPOSED COMBINES DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY WITH APPLICABILITY TO A NUMBER OF CHALLENGES AND PROBLEMS CURRENTLY FACING NASA INTO AN ADVANCED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM. WE PROPOSE TO BUILD ON THE FOUNDATION AND EXPERIENCE PROVIDED BY ECON COMBINED WITH CURRENT NASA REQUIREMENTS AND EXPERTISE TO FURTHER DEVELOP APPLIED KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY IN THE AREAS OF: GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE UNDERSTANDING, REPRESENTATION AND CONTROL OF MULTIPLE, DOMAIN-INDEPENDENT KNOWLEDGE BASES; INTERGRATED DATA BASES FOR DISTRIBUTED KNOWLEDGE BASE SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL CONTROL ARCHITECTURES FOR DISTRIBUTED-KNOWLEDGEBASED SYSTEMS; SYSTEM RELATIONSHIPS THAT ARE UNDERSTANDABLE AND ACCESSIBLE TO THE HUMAN AT A HIGHER LEVEL OF COMMUNICATION.