this paper aims to provide first a theoretical discussion of the ontology problem in MAS and second an introduction to how to design and implement knowledge intensive agents with CommonKADS methodology. The paper is organized around three questions: (1) is knowledge a necessary entity in Agent Systems? (2) What is the problem for individual knowledge intensive agents to cooperate? (3) Provide a...

Domain-oriented knowledge-acquisition tools provide e cient support for the design of knowledge-based systems. However, the cost of developing such tools is high, especially when their restricted scope is taken into account. Developers can use metalevel tools to generate domain-oriented knowledge-acquisition tools that are custom tailored for a small group of experts, with considerably less eff...

A major step in building guideline-based clinical care systems is encoding medical knowledge in guideline documents for interpretation by the computer. Guideline models provide the structure to encapsulate guideline knowledge. Developers who are familiar with the guideline model and domain experts who have relevant medical knowledge work as a team to encode guidelines using knowledge acquisitio...

Knowledge Acquisition is a critical and time-consuming phase during the development of knowledge based systems. The ACKnowledge project' aims at improving the efficiency of knowledge acquisition. For this purpose, the theoretical approach of the project consists in analyzing and evaluating applicability of existing knowledge acquisition techniques in various contexts in order to develop a compr...

Knowledge Acquisition (KA) Scripts capture typical modification sequences that users follow when they modify knowledge bases. KA tools can use these Scripts to guide users in making these modifications, ensuring that they follow all the ramifications of the change until it is completed. This paper describes our approach to design, develop, and organize a library of KA Scripts. We report the res...

2. Types of Procedural Knowledge Procedural knowledge forms an important part of expertise. This paper describes a system which allows domain experts to themselves enter procedural Knowledge into a knowledge base. The system, a stylized form of scientific English embodied within the Unit System for knowledge acquisition and representation, has been used successfully within the domain of molecul...

The Joseph Bell Centre for Forensic Statistics and Legal Reasoning has been set up to examine the correct presentation, interpretation and evaluation of scientific and forensic evidence through the use of technology. The aim of the Centre is to build computer systems for those operating in the legal system so that they can follow best practice whether investigating a crime or presenting evidenc...

Knowledge acquisition is the process of acquiring knowledge from sources. There are many varied techniques to populate ontologies. This paper explores techniques in knowledge acquisition from user dialog using opencyc. We look at techniques to constrain the relationship when entering concepts and developed a system which allows the user to interact with opencyc without any knowledge of ontologi...

Using AgentSpeak-DL, we propose an agent model to autonomously query the web of data to gather additional knowledge related to the current set of beliefs. The knowledge acquisition mechanism uses additional assertions specified with the beliefs as inputs to construct the queries. The assertions come from a description logic approach to specify the agent belief base. Information from the queries...