This paper discusses the application of a previously reported theory of explanation rhetoric (Maybury, 1988b) to the task of explaining constraint violations in a hybrid rule/frame based system for resource allocation (Dawson et al, 1987). This research illustrates how discourse strategies of explanation, textual connectives, and additional justification knowledge can be applied to enhance the ...

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...

The definition of reliability of knowledge-updating in network knowledge resource management system (NKRM system for brief) has been given in this paper, which has important reference value to the evaluation of NKRM system. Besides, two kinds of models in NKRM system have been introduced. And one of the most common methods to improve reliability is the redundant technique. However, reliability ...

Increased concern about bioterrorism and emerging diseases is driving the development of systems for early epidemic detection. These systems have different requirements than traditional public health monitoring systems. They typically deal with larger and more diverse data sets and must use a large variety of analysis techniques to perform real-time tracking of multiple syndromes. Operationally...

This paper examines experience and knowledge, experience management and knowledge management, and their interrelationships. It also proposes process perspectives for both experience management and knowledge management, which integrate experience processing and corresponding management, knowledge processing and corresponding management respectively. The proposed approach will facilitate research...

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In early stages of design architects often use sketching and diagramming to perform formal and functional reasoning. Design sketches are an external representation aid for visualization and evaluation of the spatial arrangements of artifacts. Symbols and configurations are used in design sketches to define context and object arrangements. This paper argues the need to study design drawing, repo...

Real-world applications often require the joint use of datadriven and knowledge-based models. While data-driven models are learned from available process data, knowledge-based models are able to provide additional information not contained in the data. In this contribution, we propose a method to divide the input space on the basis of the validity ranges of the knowledge-based models. By doing ...

The fDS approach to Japanese-to-English MT found sponsorship from the British Government and ICL from 1984 as part of ALVEY (IKBS project no.25, carried out at the University of Sheffield, England in cooperation with ICL and Kobe University, Japan). When the Japanese to English part of the ALVEY project was successfully concluded in 1987, resulting in the creation of AIDTRANS, SHARP Corporation...

In today's knowledge-based economy, an organization's ability to strategically leverage knowledge has become a crucial factor for global competitiveness. Knowledge is considered an important source of establishing and maintaining competitive advantage. Specifically, knowledge sharing and resultant knowledge creation are crucial for organizations to gain and sustain competitiveness. The aim of t...