This manual provides detailed information about using ConceptBase. Information about the installation procedure can be found in the Installation Guide in the directory CB_HOME/doc/TechInfo/InstallationGuide.txt. For new users of ConceptBase we recommend to follow the installation guide for getting the system started and then to work through the ConceptBase Tutorial. More information about the knowledge representation mechanisms, the applications, and the implementation concepts can be found in the references. Chapter 2 describes the ConceptBase version of the Telos language and gives some examples for its usage. Chapter 3 discusses the parameters that can be set when starting the ConceptBase server. Finally, section 4 describes the ConceptBase Usage Enviroment.
Appendices contain a formal definition of the Telos syntax and internal data structures (A). Appendix C summarizes ConceptBase mechanism for assigning graphical types to objects and adapting the graphical browsing tool for specific application needs. Appendix D contains the full Telos notation of an example model (D.1) and a case study on the modeling of entity-relationship diagrams with Telos (D.2).
Plenty of examples on using ConceptBase for particular application domains such as meta modeling can be found in the ConceptBase Forum (CB-Forum). See http://conceptbase.cc for more details.