Many of the definitions included in this glossary are only pertinent within the knowledgeware context.
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| activity | A property which defines whether a feature is applied to a document or not. The activity value is either true or false. It is indicated by an icon in the specification tree and can also be read in the document parameter list. |
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| expert check | A set of statements intended to give you a clue as to whether certain conditions are fulfilled or not. An expert check applies to the features of a given type. It does not modify the document it is applied to. An expert check is a feature. In the document specification tree, it is displayed as a relation that can be activated and deactivated. Like any feature, an expert check can be manipulated from its contextual menu. |
| expert rule | A set of instructions, generally based on conditional statements, whereby the relationship between parameters is controlled. An expert check applies to the features of a given type. In the document specification tree, it is displayed as a relation that can be activated or deactivated. Like any feature, an expert rule can be manipulated from its contextual menu. |
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| formula | A relation specifying a constraint on a parameter. The formula relation is a one-line statement. Its left part is the parameter to be constrained, the right part is a relation taking as its variables other parameters. A formula is a feature. In the document specification tree, it is displayed as a relation that can be activated or deactivated. Like any feature, a formula can be manipulated from its contextual menu. |
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| knowledgeware | The set of software components dedicated to the creation and manipulation of knowledge-based information. Knowledge-based information consists of rules and other types of relations whereby designers can save their corporate know-how and reuse it later on to drive their design processes. |
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| magnitude type parameter | A parameter whose value is defined by a quantity expressed in specific units. Length, Angle, Time parameters are magnitude type parameters. Boolean, Real, String and Integer parameters are not magnitude type parameters. |
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| object browser | A form of user assistance that helps the user pick up objects such as features, feature attributes, operators and functions in a predefined list of objects. |
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| parameter | A feature defining a document property. |
| predicate | The condition part in an expert rule. The other part of the expert rule describes the actions to be executed when the predicate is true. |
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| relation | A knowledgeware feature which,
depending on certain conditions:
Knowledgeware relations are formulas, checks, rules and design tables. |
| rule base | The feature at the top of the expert rule/check hierarchy. |
| rule set | A group of expert rules or checks |
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The operation which consists in
applying all the rules/checks of a rule base to a document.
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