Tools for representing problems and the knowledge required to solve them

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3426 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 82-94

  Jonassen, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EXPERT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONCEPT MAPS; MENTAL REPRESENTATION; SYSTEMS DYNAMICS;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 36849086439     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11510154_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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