ISTAR - A tool for creative design of knowledge bases

Expert Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 259-276

  Basden, Andrew ^a   Brown, Alex J ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INCA Project ^*

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amiga; Direct manipulation; Graphical user interfaces; Inference nets; Knowledge representation

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

INFERENCE NETS;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 0030290629     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0394.1996.tb00124.x     Document Type: Article

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