The aim of this paper is to relate two trending topics in contemporary epistemology: the discussion group knowledge and knowledge-first approach. In social epistemology no one has seriously applied developed Williamson’s theory approach case yet. For example, scholars typically assume that analyzed terms more basic concepts, such as belief or acceptance, justification, so on. However, if correc...

Knowledge bases are encountered in different AI areas such as configuration, planning, diagnosis, semantic web, game playing, and others. Very often the amount and arrangement of the elements in the knowledge base outstrips the capability of a knowledge engineer to survey them and to efficiently perform maintenance operations – a situation that triggers an enormous demand of extending and impro...

The development of highly effective heuristics for search problems is a difficult and time-consuming task. We present a knowledge acquisition approach to incrementally model expert search processes. Our approach targets at the implicit representation of the less clearly definable quality criteria by allowing the expert to limit their input to the system to explanations of the steps in the exper...

Most knowledge-based system development efforts include acquiring knowledge from one or more sources. Difficulties associated with this knowledge acquisition task are readily acknowledged by most researchers. While a variety of knowledge acquisition methods have been reported, little has been done to organize those different methods and to suggest how to apply them within a conceptual framework...

In recent years, knowledge-based systems have become one of the most popular approaches for solving engineering problems. Along with the rising complexity of the problem, knowledge management, acquisition, representation, inferencing, and refinement become increasingly difficult. Conventionally, tasks of knowledge acquisition and representation are accomplished separately and sequentially. Know...