INTEROPERABILITY ON THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE UNITS

The term of interoperability is originally known from the area of ICT. In connection with knowledge it means mainly interoperability of knowledge bases or some knowledge; it is based on ontology as declarative forms of its representations. Objective of this paper is to suggest, specify and formalize interoperability on the level of knowledge units. For such purpose, systems´ approach based model of knowledge units is used. Formalization of interoperability based on knowledge unit model contributes to clarification of the less specified term “interoperability of knowledge”, where the term of knowledge is not exactly defined. Plant production has been chosen as an application domain for the purpose of demonstration of suggested procedures and operations. Even though the selected application is very simple, it illustrates well how to transfer some procedures and knowledge into specific area of human activities (agriculture production). Formalization of interoperability on the level of knowledge units contributes to purposeful indication of the interoperability process for application of new knowledge in the target sector