Task-Structure Analysis for Knowledge Modeling

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1992, Pages 124-137

  Chandrasekaran, B ^a   Johnson, Todd R ^b   Smith, Jack W ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Laboratory for Knowledge Based Medical Systems ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

analysis; modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING;

KNOWLEDGE LEVEL (KL); KNOWLEDGE MODELING; TASK-STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 0026923521     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/130994.131002     Document Type: Article

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