The use of a prototype system for evaluating knowledge elicitation techniques

Expert Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 83-97

  Jones, S R ^a   Miles, J C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluating techniques; Knowledge based systems; Knowledge elicitation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 0032063975     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0394.00067     Document Type: Article

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