Knowledge Acquisition Systems For Rapid Prototyping Of Expert Systems
Brian R. Gaines · INFOR Information Systems and Operational Research · 1988
This paper describes trends in knowledge support environments – integrated interactive knowledge acquisition systems and expert system shells – that can provide a specialist community with tools supporting a wide range of knowledge processes. These systems extrapolate the trend from human knowledge engineering, through automated interviewing of the expert, to continuing on-line access to both knowledge acquisition and application processes. In knowledge support systems the distinctions between expert, knowledge engineer and client roles are deliberately blurred, and a diversity of knowledge processes and changing roles are supported within an entire interacting community. A prototype knowledge support system is described with examples of some ofthe knowledge acquisition and application tools provided. It is suggested that such systems provide a major knowledge-based technology with commercial implications and applications going beyond those currently envisioned for expert systems.