Meta-knowledge in systems design: Panacea ... or undelivered promise?

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 381-404

  Kalfoglou, Yannis ^a,b   Menzies, Tim ^c,d   Althoff, Klaus Dieter ^e   Motta, Enrico ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^d 2356 Main Mall ^*  (Canada)

^e FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cost effective analysis; Design types; Experienceware; Ontologies; Patterns; Problem solving methods

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

KNOWLEDGE SHARING; METAKNOWLEDGE; ONTOLOGIES;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034437454     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888900004033     Document Type: Article

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