The knowledge engineers’ oath

engineers and the knowledge of the environment

engineering and related sciences are among the most important compartments of the knowledge, which has been developed during centuries in order to provide a better life for human being. unfortunately, during the expansion of this knowledge, the aim has been sometimes neglected. in fact, human being has been destroying and depleting the natural resources, which is related on them for his life. t...

Who Wrote the Hippocratic Oath

1 Managing Software Engineers and their Knowledge

This chapter begins by reviewing the history of software engineering as a profession, especially the so-called “software crisis” and responses to it, to help focus on what it is that software engineers do. This leads into a discussion of the areas in software engineering that are problematic, as a basis for considering the knowledge management issues. Some of the previous work on knowledge mana...

Oath of Hippocrates

Knowledge- eduction: A New A oath to Checking Knowledge Bases for Inconsistency Redundancy

This paper presents a new approach, called knowledge-base reduction, to the problem of checking knowledge bases for inconsistency and redundancy. The algorithm presented here makes use of concepts and techniques that have recently been advocated by de Kleer [deKleer, 19861 in conjunction with an assumption-based truth maintenance system. Knowledge-base reduction is more comprehensive than previ...