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Knowledge-acquisition tools with explicit problem-solving models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

William Birmingham  and
Georg Klinker
William Birmingham
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA (e.mail: wpb@crim.eecs.umich.edu)
Georg Klinker
Affiliation:
Digital Equipment Corporation, 111 Locke Drive, Marlboro, MA 01752, USA (e.mail: klinker@airg.dec.com)
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Abstract

In the past decade, expert systems have been applied to a wide variety of application tasks. A central problem of expert system development and maintenance is the demand placed on knowledge engineers and domain experts. A commonly proposed solution is knowledge-acquisition tools. This paper reviews a class of knowledge-acquisition tools that presuppose the problem-solving method, as well as the structure of the knowledge base. These explicit problem-solving models are exploited by the tools during knowledge-acquisition, knowledge generalization, error checking and code generation.

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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , March 1993 , pp. 5 - 25
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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