Skip to main content
Go to the home page of the European Commission (opens in new window)
English English
CORDIS - EU research results
CORDIS
Content archived on 2024-04-16

Validation Methods and Tools for Knowledge-Based Systems

Objective

VALID aimed to advance the ability to validate knowledge-based systems. The objective was to develop a tool-box based on a common representation within which the validation concepts could be defined and analysed.
The project aimed to advance the ability to validate knowledge based systems. The objective was to develop a toolbox based on a common representation within which the validation concepts could be defined and analysed.

The research provided a knowledge based system (KBS) project leader with a quality manual that described the related actions to be performed during the whole KBS life cycle, and a toolbox that contained a validation metalanguage (VETA) and validation tools.
The KBS quality assurance and control gathers a set of actions to be done during the whole life cycle. The Quality Manual describes each action in regards to its goals, the validation tools required and the people involved in the action. VETA is a metalanguage that gathers around 1000 primitives dedicated to validation, working on a common conceptual knowledge representation (CCR). This CCR allows support to any KBS that deals with: knowledge representation based on objects and rules, monoinheritance, first order logic, rule set, metarules, etc. The validation tools have been developed within VETA.
7 validation tools cover a wide area of validation problems, ranging from purely practical validation tools to validation problems that are research topics.
The approach was to develop the following methodologies:

- the definition of a KBS quality manual, with special attention to validation actions during the different phases of KBS life cycles
- a common conceptual representation (CCR) in which most KBSs can be expressed
- the definition of a validation metalanguage (VETA) to provide the abstract mechanisms necessary to build validation tools.

These have provided the basis for several software products:

- an implementation of VETA;
- a set of representative tools for the validation of KBSs;
- interfaces to a set of existing KBSs.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.

You need to log in or register to use this function

Programme(s)

Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.

Topic(s)

Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.

Data not available

Call for proposal

Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.

Data not available

Funding Scheme

Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.

Data not available

Coordinator

Framentec Cognitech SA
EU contribution
No data
Address
Tour Fiat 1 place de la Coupole
92084 Paris la Défense
France

See on map

Total cost

The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.

No data

Participants (3)

My booklet 0 0