Meta-synthesis and expert mining

Meta-synthesis system approach is a system approach for solving the open giant complex system problems proposed by Qian et. al. During implementing a major program related to studying this approach supported by NSF of China a new flowchart for realizing this approach had suggested: ldquoMeeting I-Analysis- Meeting IIrdquo. In this flowchart we emphasized on the expert´s opinion, knowledge, experience and wisdom. In recent years authors practiced this approach and flowchart in dealing with economic, social and human body systems and put the expert mining furthermore. Expert mining is different with the data mining based on the massive amount of data. The main characteristics of expert mining are subjective ideas existed in the brain of experts, number of samples not too large. In this paper we will introduce some basics, methods and tools in expert mining.