Toward Integration of Knowledge Based Systems and Knowledge Discovery Systems

Knowledge Based Systems (KBS) or expert systems emulate the human expert behavior in a certain knowledge area. They constitute aid systems to take decisions in different areas such as educational strategic selection, environmental variables control, neonatology fans configuration, agreement in judicial process or the attended generation of activity maps of software development projects. Knowledge based systems to aid decision taking is a particular knowledge based system. The knowledge base of an expert system encapsulates in some representation formalism (rules, frames, semantic nets among other) the domain knowledge that should be used by the system to solve a certain problem.