We are developing GenIE, a prototype intelligent system to create first drafts of genetic counseling patient letters. GenIE will apply natural language generation techniques to construct the first draft of a letter for subsequent review and editing, if needed, by the genetic counselor. For purposes of knowledge acquisition, we have been analyzing a corpus of patient letters. Based on the corpus...

This paper gives a short description of a working prototype of an intelligent background knowledge broker as an enhancement module of the Web base training system GENTLE [Maurer and Dietinger 97a, Dietinger and Maurer 98a]. The dynamic and the static library represent a most relevant knowledge repository, which is automatically enlarged and improved by the users themselves according to their ne...

We propose, in this paper, a new ontology for network forensics analysis. The proposed ontology is the first cyber forensics to integrate both network forensics domain knowledge and problem solving knowledge. As such it can be used as a knowledge-base for developing sophisticated intelligent network forensics systems to support complex chain of reasoning. We use a real life network intrusion sc...

Questions are explored that courseware evaluators may pose in establishing the extent to which 'intelligence' is present in Intelligent Computer Assisted Instruction and Intelligent Tutoring Systems. The focus is on key features of intelligent systems including a knowledge base which grows, knowledge of student progress and interaction style, feedback or self-reflection of activities, tolerance...

Object-oriented database systems have proven very valuable at handling and administrating complex objects. In the following guidelines for embedding neural networks into such systems are presented. It is our goal to treat networks as normal data in the database system. From the logical point of view, a neural network is a complex data value and can be stored as a normal data object. It is gener...

A major challenge facing management in developed countries is improving the performance of knowledge and service workers, i.e. the decision makers. In a developing country such as South Africa, with a welldeveloped business sector, the need to improve the performance of decision makers, especially in government, is even more crucial. South Africa has to face many new challenges in the 21 centur...

System of systems engineering technology describes the possibility of ill-defined (autonomous or hierarchically connected) dynamic control system design that includes human decision making in unpredicted (unforeseen) control situations. Kansei/Affective Engineering technology and its toolkit include qualitative description of human being emotion, instinct and intuition that are used effectively...