Knowledge Acquisition Using Group Support Systems

Explanation and Acquisition in Expert Systems Using Support Knowledge

The application of group support systems to knowledge acquisition for disaster response planning

This paper describes the results ofthe use of a Group Support System (GSS) and two “hindcasting” scenario exercises. The GSS is used to implement the hindcasting, knowledge mapping, and knowledge representation techniques as disaster planning tools. This work improves our understanding of the knowledge engineering process in the areas of knowledge acquisition, validation, and representation whe...

Critiquing Human Judgment Using Knowledge-Acquisition Systems

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Component-Based Support for Building Knowledge-Acquisition Systems

During the past decade, there has been increasing consensus within the knowledge-based–systems community on appropriate conceptual components for building intelligent computer programs. Intelligent systems are now generally construed in terms of both domain ontologies and abstract problemsolving methods that operate on knowledge bases defined in terms of those ontologies. There has been less co...

Knowledge Acquisition, Representation \& Manipulation in Decision Support Systems

In this paper we present a methodology and discuss some implementation issues for a project on statistical/expert approach to data analysis and knowledge acquisition. We discuss some general assumptions underlying the project. Further, the requirements for a user-friendly computer assistant are specified along with the nature of tools aiding the researcher. Next we show some aspects of belief n...