Design–oriented critiquing systems have successfully demonstrated their capability to aid users in designing artifacts. They can be seen as personal assistants helping to reflect on a particular design and to improve it. For doing so, design–oriented critiquing systems make knowledge and expertise of domain experts available to end users of authoring tools. Unfortunately, it is a quite demandin...

An application of Artificial IntellIgence Is discussed: an automatic programming system that generates Information retrIeval programs and data base structure designs for highly structured or network data bases. It Is claimed that these applications are unusual In that they have more practical value than Is usually the case, being of Immediate utility to commerclal data base management. The pape...

We research how subject matter experts can develop knowledge-based systems that incorporate their expertise. Our approach is to develop a learning and problem solving agent, called Disciple, that an expert can teach by explaining it how to solve specific problems, and by critiquing its attempts to solve new problems (Tecuci 1998). The knowledge base of the agent is structured into an object ont...

Personalized knowledge-based systems have not yet become widespread, despite their potential for valuable assistance in many daily tasks. This is due, in part, to the high cost of developing and maintaining customized knowledge bases. The construction of personal assistants as learning apprentices -interactive assistants that learn continually from their users -is one approach which could drama...