5. Representing Knowledge for Adaptation

An important task for experience management is the adaptation of experience in order to improve its reusability. This adaptation task requires additional, general knowledge besides the experience itself. This kind of knowledge is part of the general reuse-related knowledge in the experience management model (see Sect. 2.1). This chapter deals with various approaches for modeling adaptation knowledge.The modeling approaches for adaptation knowledge have their origin in the projects INRECA, INRECA-II, and WEBSELL. They have been first published by Bergmann et al. (1996),Wilke and Bergmann (1996b),Meyfarth (1997), Schmitt and Bergmann (1999b), Schmitt and Bergmann (1999a), Stahl and Bergmann (2000), and Stahl et al. (2000). Please note also that this chapter is restricted to the knowledge representation issues; the processing of the various kinds of adaptation knowledge is discussed separately in Chap. 8.