Philosophical grounding and computational formalization for practice based engineering knowledge

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 382-387

  Dias, W P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Connectionist AI techniques; Practice based knowledge; Shared practice; Tacit knowing

Indexed keywords

CASE BASED REASONING; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY;

CONNECTIONIST AI TECHNIQUES; PRACTICE BASED KNOWLEDGE; SHARED PRACTICES; TACIT KNOWING;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 34047256239     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

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