Knowledge level modelling: Concepts and terminology

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-29

  Uschold, Mike ^a,b  

^a Artif Intell Applic Institute   (United Kingdom)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

KNOWLEDGE LEVEL MODELING;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032024227     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888998001040     Document Type: Article

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