A Future for Knowledge Acquisition

A Future for Knowledge Acquisition

Author: Luc Steels

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1994-09-14

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9783540584872

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In the last few years rapid advances have been made in reproductive medicine, making it necessary for those involved to regularly update their knowledge. The purpose of this book is to describe the state of the art in this field, making it possible for the reader to gain an orientation among all the diagnostic and therapeutic potentials of modern reproductive medicine in order to advise patients fully. Chapters from the fields of gynecology, and reproductive medicine in a specific sense provide knowledge about these subjects. Authors of international standing have contributed chapters on their specialties. These chapters together form a book describing the state of the art in the diagnosis and therapy of sterility in gynecology and andrology.


Knowledge Acquisition: Approaches, Algorithms and Applications

Knowledge Acquisition: Approaches, Algorithms and Applications

Author: Debbie Richards

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-05-25

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 3642017142

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 2008 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, PKAW 2008, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in December 2008 as part of 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2008. The 20 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions and went through two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on machine learning and data mining, incremental knowledge acquisition, web-based techniques and applications, as well as domain specific knowledge acquisition methods and applications.


Advances in Knowledge Acquisition

Advances in Knowledge Acquisition

Author: Nigel Shadbolt

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1996-04-26

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9783540612735

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This book presents the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, EKAW '96, held in Nottingham, UK, in May 1996. The 23 revised full papers included address the most relevant theoretical and applicational aspects of knowledge acquisition with a certain emphasis on the acquisition of knowledge for the modelling or automation of complex problem-solving behaviour. The volume is organized in sections on theoretical and general issues, eliciting knowledge from textual or other sources, data-mining, group elicitation, and planning.


Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management

Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management

Author: Dieter Fensel

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1999-05-19

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 3540660445

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management, EKAW '99, held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany in May 1999. The volume presents 16 revised full papers and 15 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected form a high number of submissions. Also included are two invited papers. The papers address issues of knowledge acquisition (i.e., the process of extracting, creating, structuring knowledge, etc.), of knowledge-level modeling for knowledge-based systems, and of applying and redefining this work in a knowledge management and knowledge engineering context.


Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management

Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management

Author: Rudi Studer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-06-29

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 3540487751

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Past, Present, and Future of Knowledge Acquisition This book contains the proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Kno- edge Acquisition, Modeling, and Management (EKAW ’99), held at Dagstuhl Castle (Germany) in May of 1999. This continuity and the high number of s- missions re?ect the mature status of the knowledge acquisition community. Knowledge Acquisition started as an attempt to solve the main bottleneck in developing expert systems (now called knowledge-based systems): Acquiring knowledgefromahumanexpert. Variousmethodsandtoolshavebeendeveloped to improve this process. These approaches signi?cantly reduced the cost of - veloping knowledge-based systems. However, these systems often only partially ful?lled the taskthey weredevelopedfor andmaintenanceremainedanunsolved problem. This required a paradigm shift that views the development process of knowledge-based systems as a modeling activity. Instead of simply transf- ring human knowledge into machine-readable code, building a knowledge-based system is now viewed as a modeling activity. A so-called knowledge model is constructed in interaction with users and experts. This model need not nec- sarily re?ect the already available human expertise. Instead it should provide a knowledgelevelcharacterizationof the knowledgethat is requiredby the system to solve the application task. Economy and quality in system development and maintainability are achieved by reusable problem-solving methods and onto- gies. The former describe the reasoning process of the knowledge-based system (i. e. , the algorithms it uses) and the latter describe the knowledge structures it uses (i. e. , the data structures). Both abstract from speci?c application and domain speci?c circumstances to enable knowledge reuse.


Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Smart Systems and Services

Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Smart Systems and Services

Author: Debbie Richards

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-08-11

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 3642150365

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The book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Smart Systems and Services, held in Daegue, Korea in August 2010 in conjunction with the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2010. The 26 revised full papers were selected from 94 submissions and are organized in topical sections on Machine Learning, Data Mining, Knowledge Engineering & Ontology, Incremental Knowledge Acquisition, KA Applications in Internet and Mobile Computing and KA Applications in Multimedia and Games.


The Knowledge Acquisition and Representation Language, KARL

The Knowledge Acquisition and Representation Language, KARL

Author: Dieter Fensel

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1461522757

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Within the framework of so-called second generation expert systems [62] knowledge modeling is one of the most important aspects. On the one hand, knowledge acquisition is no longer seen as a knowledge transfer process, rather it is now considered as model construction process which is typically a cyclic and error prone process. On the other hand, the distinction between knowledge and symbol level descriptions [166] resulted in various proposals for conceptual knowledge models describing knowledge in an implementation independent way. One of the most prominent examples of such a conceptual model is the KADS model of expertise which is characterized by its clear distinction of different know ledge types and by the usage of specific modeling primitives to describe these different knowledge types [185]. The semi formal KADS expertise model entails all the advantages and disadvantages which have been identified for semi-formal system models e.g. in the software engineering community.


Knowledge Intensive CAD

Knowledge Intensive CAD

Author: Martti Mäntylä

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-09

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0387349308

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Knowledge-Intensive CAD clarifies and elaborates the concepts of knowledge-intensive design and CAD. In today's advanced manufacturing environment, CAD systems should not only assist designers and engineers during product design, but also in design information for use in later stages of the process such as production, distribution and operation. This book focuses on the sharing of knowledge across life-cycle stages and organizational boundaries.


Knowledge-engineering Shells: Systems And Techniques

Knowledge-engineering Shells: Systems And Techniques

Author: Nikolas G Bourbakis

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1993-09-30

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9814505307

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This book offers a systematic approach to knowledge engineering problems. It gives a brief overview of knowledge engineering systems and environments, covering both classical and recent techniques of the design and evaluation of them. Detailed descriptions of particular techniques and applications are also provided.