Lessons learned from developing a mission-critical expert system with multiple experts through rapid prototyping

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 217-227

  Bloom, P C ^a   Chung, Q B ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

MISSION-CRITICAL EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035252028     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-4174(00)00061-0     Document Type: Article

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