ABSTRACT
This chapter considers competence assessment and competence improvement by a meta-system as somewhat like process control, which consists of the generic tasks dynamic analysis, interpretation, diagnosis, and repair of the processes running in the object system if required. Knowledge-based systems are used to solve difficult problems. The assumptions are very abstract and totally implementation independent. The description at the meta-level is modular and can be far better understood than by a direct extension of the object system. By basing the meta-components on abstract descriptions of the object system, the knowledge model, they become immediately reusable for all those object systems that correspond to this model. One may argue that the implementation of a meta-system is less efficient than the direct extension of the object system; or the competence specialists may executable in the new target environment. Because the meta-component, too, is a knowledge-based problem solver, the same modeling technique can also be used at meta level.
