Capturing expertise from experts: The need to match knowledge elicitation techniques with expert system types

Journal of Computer Information Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 89-95

  Moody, Janette W ^a   Blanton, J Ellis ^b   Will, Richard P ^b  

^a THE CITADEL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Expert system; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge elicitation; Knowledge representation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER BASED INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ELICITATION TECHNIQUES; HUMAN KNOWLEDGE; INITIAL DEVELOPMENT;

EXPERT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0347747939     PISSN: 08874417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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