Hybridization of temporal knowledge for economic environment analysis

The paper is devoted to the concept of hybridization of temporal knowledge in an intelligent reasoning system. Hybridization is a special kind of integration, where heterogeneous knowledge is transformed in order to obtain a uniform one, but information on temporal characteristics and on core features of knowledge being transformed is preserved, and may be also used for reasoning. It may be said, that integration serves as means of hybridization, but only if at least two conditions are fulfilled: if integration is source-oriented, and the knowledge sources are kept autonomous. In the paper we present in detail the concept of integration, the conditions that are to be fulfilled if the integration is to serve as the means of temporal hybridization. We show an application area for a hybridized knowledge, namely the analysis of economic environment of an enterprise. We present an example of a hybridization procedure.