Design of knowledge-based systems with a knowledge-based assistant

Author

Schoen, Eric ; Smith, Reid G. ; Buchanan, Bruce G.

Author_Institution

Schlumberger Palo Alto Res., CA, USA

Volume

14

Issue

12

fYear

1988

fDate

12/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1771

Lastpage

1791

Abstract

The authors propose a model for an intelligent assistant to aid in building knowledge-based systems (KBSs) and discuss a preliminary implementation. The assistant participates in KBS construction, including acquisition of an initial model of a problem domain, acquisition of control and task-specific inference knowledge, testing and validation, and long-term maintenance of encoded knowledge. The authors present a hypothetical scenario in which the assistant and a KBS designer cooperate to create an initial domain model and then discuss five categories of knowledge the assistant requires to offer such help. They discuss two software technologies on which the assistant is based: an object-oriented programming language, and a user-interface framework

Keywords

high level languages; inference mechanisms; knowledge acquisition; knowledge based systems; object-oriented programming; program verification; programming environments; user interfaces; encoded knowledge; inference knowledge; initial domain model; intelligent assistant; knowledge acquisition; knowledge-based assistant; knowledge-based systems; object-oriented programming language; problem domain; testing; user-interface; validation; Buildings; Design engineering; Intelligent structures; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge based systems; Knowledge engineering; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; System testing; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-5589

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/32.9063

Filename

9063