Conceptualizing structurable tasks in the development of knowledge-based systems

Decision Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 415-449

  Benaroch, Michel ^a   Tanniru, Mohan ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge Modeling; Knowledge Based Systems; Task Conceptualization; Task structuring

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040051921     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1996.tb00859.x     Document Type: Article

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