Knowledge Formulation Support System CONSIST-II : Evaluation and Improvement of CONSIST (<Survey Papers> Special Issue : Creative Thinking Support Systems)

Abstract

Knowledge Formulation is an essential task to design database schema, to develop knowledge bases, to author hypermedia bases, etc. Its goal is to find a proper information structure to formulate gathered pieces of information. The usual procedures for the knowledge formulation are the grouping and linking of cards. We've developed a system named CONSIST (CONStruction of Information STructure) to support this knowledge formulation task considering above features. This paper first describes our view to the support of this task and the basic functions of CONSIST. Next, it describes the evaluation of results of the experimental application of CONSIST to a sample problem. Finally, we discuss the necessary functions for more effective support for the knowledge formulation, which are now implemented on our successive system CONSIST-II.