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Applying systems analysis techniques to knowledge engineering

Gail Swaffield, +1 more
- 01 May 1990 - 
- Vol. 7, Iss: 2, pp 82-92
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The methods proposed lay emphasis on the definition of limited data sets at the boundary of the explicit knowledge base and the identification of status attributes to model the control of activation of ‘processes’ within the knowledge base.
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This paper deals with the issue of knowledge elicitation for expert systems. Specifically, it looks at the requirements of the knowledge elicitation process and the suitability of structured methods from systems analysis to carry out part of the elicitation task. The techniques of data flow analysis, entity-relationship analysis and entity-life cycle analysis are used to structure the data associated with the expert task. The methods proposed lay emphasis on the definition of limited data sets at the boundary of the explicit knowledge base and the identification of status attributes to model the control of activation of ‘processes’ within the knowledge base. Attention is also paid to the relationship between the resulting logical model, and two popular methods of knowledge representation, namely, Production Systems and Frames.

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The entity-relationship model: toward a unified view of data

TL;DR: A data model, called the entity-relationship model, is proposed that incorporates some of the important semantic information about the real world and can be used as a basis for unification of different views of data: the network model, the relational model, and the entity set model.
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The entity-relationship model: toward a unified view of data

TL;DR: A data model, called the entity-relationship model, which incorporates the semantic information in the real world is proposed, and a special diagramatic technique is introduced for exhibiting entities and relationships.
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Another look at data

TL;DR: This paper sketches a theory of data which may serve to clarify questions about data, based on a number of old ideas which may, as a result, seem obvious.
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Knowledge Elicitation Involving Teachback Interviewing

TL;DR: The authors' knowledge elicitation technique has at its center a program of semi-structured interviews by a methodology based on conversation theory (Pask, 1974).
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Experiments on the Mechanization of Game-learning 2—Rule-Based Learning and the Human Window

Donald Michie
- 01 Feb 1982 - 
TL;DR: The first successful learning programs were developed in the 1950s and belonged to a general category which was at that time commonly known as 'hill-climbing', which embraces classical adaptive control, along with many studies of machine learning in games and game-like situations.
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