KNOWLEDGE AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

The early ideas on knowledge engineering had enough potential to justi fy lots of further research. However, it was soon realized that signif icant conceptual, technical and methodological advances were needed fo r that potential to be delivered. This presentation illustrates some o f the significant progress that has been made. It serves as background for the invited presentation on the future of knowledge engineering. Indeed, new insights and technological developments (e.g. in networkin g) are challenging the relevance of some of these results. Given that, what does the future for knowledge engineering look like? This contri bution is mainly an overview of recent results of work on a major Euro pean knowledge engineering methodology, CommonKADS. Parts of this pape r have appeared in Breuker and Van de Velde (1994) and in the preface to the proceedings of EKAW-94.