ABSTRACT
First published in 1992, this volume identifies the problems facing the designer of multi-environmental knowledge-based systems, and explains the principles that must be followed in order to obtain successful results.
Systems called upon to function in a variety of widely differing cultural and natural environments can only do so satisfactorily if from the very beginning they have been designed with this versatility in mind. For the first time, the know-how for this often formidable design task has been gathered together and presented here.
This study was written to an overall plan, with chapters commissioned from a group of research of quite diversified back-grounds who had deeply explored their subjects. Each topic was thus covered in close connection with the others, so as to form a coherent whole.
While primarily aimed at workers in Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, as well as designers of other kinds of sophisticated software, the contents of the book are of wider validity, just as the multi-environmental demands are of wider incidence. Manufactures, exporters and importers of computing technology with a large knowledge component will also find their concerns addressed.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|88 pages
Multiple Environments and Multiple Contexts in Knowledge Engineering
chapter Chapter 1|13 pages
Introducing Multi-Environmental and Multi-Context Knowledge-Based Systems: A New Approach
chapter Chapter 2|12 pages
What is a Multiple Environment and how does it Affect the Function of a Knowledge-Based System?
chapter Chapter 4|13 pages
Impact of Multiple Environments on the Functioning of Medical and Other Knowledge-Based Systems
part II|82 pages
Methods of Knowledge Elicitation
chapter Chapter 6|13 pages
Knowledge Elicitation – An Exercise in Identification and Verification of Expert Knowledge
chapter Chapter 8|41 pages
Linking Argumentative Discourse with Formal Evaluation Procedures in Design
part III|109 pages
Design of Knowledge-Based Systems and Robots for Multi-Environmental Situations
chapter Chapter 13|17 pages
Distributed Architectures for Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) and Other Embedded Robotic Systems
part IV|76 pages
Method for Design Validation of Multi-Environmental Knowledge-Based Systems
part V|21 pages
Epilogue