Representation of Models for Expert Problem Solving in Physics

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 48-54

  Kook, Hyung Joon ^a   Novak, Gordon S ^b  

^a Sejong University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EXPERT SYSTEMS;

APEX PROGRAMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; VIEW FRAMEWORK;

PHYSICS;

EID: 0026118736     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.75888     Document Type: Article

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