Knowledge Net: Model and System for Accumulation, Representation, and Use of Knowledge

Abstract

The paper describes data and knowledge accumulation model named Knowledge Net developed for the company Info Wings LLC. It proposed as a model for formalizing, presenting, and using of knowledge and data within single shared information space of an intelligent enterprise, for example, within the framework of Industry 4.0. The key features of Knowledge Net are the support of multi-aspect description of entities, the possibility of expanding the network of concepts and entities, and the dynamic evolution of the aspects structure. The Knowledge Net is based on a graph data model and it is the part of ongoing open source application development of a digital enterprise platform. The paper provides an example of using Knowledge Net software to describe objects of a manufacturing enterprise. Current state analysis has not revealed complete analogues of Knowledge Net model for accumulation, presentation, and use of data and knowledge or the corresponding software that justifies the novelty of the model described in the paper.