S.S. Smirnov

Now more and more attention it is given to a problem of development in the person of the mental abilities helping him to adapt for any professional work, to solve creative tasks from different areas. These abilities are interdisciplinary as are above subject knowledge and help to organize work purposefully and rationally. Here we are having in view a set of separate receptions of thinking which are combining in such as «conceptual thinking», «system thinking», «reflexive thinking» etc. by different ways. All of these concepts are styles, or techniques of the thought process organization, which are directly influencing on efficiency of brainwork and quality of received results. Presence or absences of the given abilities are especially considerably in results of work of management personnel, of developers of technical and intelligence systems. In this article the concept «conceptual thinking» (CT) is considered, the actuality of purposeful CT development on an example of professional work of knowledge engineers (KE) is proved. Influence of a degree of CT skills development on results of professional work KE, i.e. quality of knowledge bases received by them is considered. Interpretation of the common abilities of CT with reference to process of the conceptual analysis of a problem domain by one of techniques is given. The task of automation of CT development is put. The technique of computer-based learning is offered and some software of its support are described. Software are considered from the point of view of the generalized structure, used model of knowledge representation, the scenario of interaction with the trainee and the scenario of interaction with developers of training models. Distinctive feature of a CT training technique is operation with descriptive texts from various problem domains at which can be present: ambiguities of presence of the fact; ambiguities of interpretation of the fact; implicit names of concepts. CT creation occurs in the course of a recognition, analysis and elimination of similar semantic constructions. The training technique was developed in the course of teaching of disciplines of «Intelligence systems», «Representation of knowledge in intellectual systems», «Object oriented programming», in the Moscow State institute of the Radio engineering, Electronics and Automation, and also at the Russian State University of Innovative Technologies and Businesses.