Knowledge-Based System for Assessment of Economic Situation of Enterprise

• Authors: Jan Andreasik

Title variants

PL

System z bazą wiedzy do oceny kondycji ekonomicznej przedsiębiorstwa

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the paper, the author’s conception of building an intelligent system for predicting economic situation of enterprises is presented. This conception is captured in the form of the prediction chain (PC). A process of reasoning by analogy is performed using a Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) methodology. In the paper, a model of an enterprise, concentrating on identification of the competence potential and competence gap, is shown. A protocol of an assessment of potential and assessment of competence gap in a given range, using the AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process), is presented. Individual elements of a system for creating the knowledge are captured in the form of an A-E-AE (Agent-Expert-Acts of Explanation). The structures of classes in the Protege editor are shown. At the end, a coordination diagram in the UML language is depicted. This diagram makes up a diagram of the interface between an expert and a CBR system.

PL

W pracy przedstawiono architekturę systemu z bazą wiedzy, którego zadaniem jest ocena ekonomicznej kondycji przedsiębiorstwa. Baza wiedzy została skonstruowana w oparciu o ontologię A-E-AE (Agent-Ekspert-Akty Wyjaśniania). Przedstawiono diagram klas w edytorze języka OWL — Protege. Strukturę procesu wyjaśniania oceny ekonomicznej sytuacji przedsiębiorstwa przedstawiono na diagramie UML. Proces rozpoznawania w systemie jest oparty na metodologii CBR (Case-Based Reasoning) — wnioskowanie poprzez analogię z bazy przypadków.

Keywords

EN

enterprise ontology; intelligent systems; predicting; case-based reasoning; expert systems

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania i Administracji w Zamościu
• Journal: Barometr Regionalny. Analizy i prognozy
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 1(35)
• Pages: 141-151

Contributors

author

Jan Andreasik

• University of Management and Administration in Zamość

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