Knowledge acquisition in the STREAMES project: The key process in the Environmental Decision Support System development

AI Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 253-265

  Comas, J ^a   Llorens, E ^a   Marti E ^b   Puig, M A ^b   Riera, J L ^c   Sabater, F ^c   Poch, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge management; Knowledge based; River water quality; Stream management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; EXPERT SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY;

DECISION TREES; IN-STREAM FUNCTIONALITY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; STREAM MANAGEMENT;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 0344119541     PISSN: 09217126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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