A knowledge-based system for assessing applications for house renovation grants

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-69

  Brandon, Peter S ^a   Ribeiro, Francisco Loforte ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Housing; Knowledge based expert systems

Indexed keywords

EXPERT SYSTEMS; HOUSES; HOUSING; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

ASSOCIATIVE METHOD; HOUSE RENOVATION; KNOWLEDGE LEVEL; KNOWLEDGE TYPES; KNOWLEDGE-BASED EXPERT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING METHODS; TASK STRUCTURE; VERIFICATION-AND-VALIDATION;

CASE BASED REASONING;

EID: 12444279429     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014461998372592     Document Type: Article

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