Using Ontology-Centric Knowledge Integration Framework as a Foundation to Innovative Problem-Solving

Abstract

Knowledge is a power which considered an important factor to solve any problems. Integrating knowledge becomes a management challenge as it can lead to creating new knowledge or innovation knowledge which magnifies this power. Cognition knowledge of individuals can be classified into three types of knowledge: declarative, procedural, and strategic knowledge which can be regulated to solve problems. Formulation of knowledge opens a chance for computers to perform complex knowledge integration and knowledge regulation process that can produce creative and innovative problem-solving. The majority of knowledge integration frameworks integrate declarative knowledge to enrich knowledge about topic of interest. In this research we proposed a problem-solving framework by integrating different types of cognition knowledge and use ontology as a foundation for formulating different types of knowledge. We applied the framework to a software design problem and take the software creational design pattern as a case study. The results of using the framework shows that it generates the most of the known design patterns in addition to innovating new software creational design pattern which can be used to solve complex design problems.