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The EPRI knowledge acquisition workshop handbook: Final report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6178446

This handbook discusses concepts and techniques for knowledge engineering an expert system. Expert systems are computer programs which replicate the reasoning of experts in some domain through the use of artificial intelligence programming techniques. The handbook focuses primarily on the acquisition of knowledge and secondarily on the representation of the knowledge acquired. Knowledge acquisition includes techniques for extracting knowledge from text and eliciting knowledge from experts. Knowledge representation issues include selecting the appropriate representation (rules, frames, networks, etc.) for your problem domain and verifying the correctness of the knowledge once it is encoded in the representation. This handbook was designed to be used in conjunction with other course materials in the Knowledge Acquisition Workshop conducted by Science Applications International Corporation for EPRI in the fall of both 1987 and 1988. The second workshop was videotaped, and this set of videotapes may be useful to the readers of this handbook. However, the handbook also was designed to be useful to persons conducting their own study in the field of knowledge engineering. Hopefully, it serves as a good overview and the references cited provide avenues for further study. 25 refs., 4 figs., 3 tabs.

Research Organization:
Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA); Science Applications International Corp., McLean, VA (USA)
OSTI ID:
6178446
Report Number(s):
EPRI-NP-6240
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English