An experimental investigation of the impact of domain complexity on knowledge acquisition (KA) methods

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1084-1094

  Holsapple, C W ^a   Raj, Victor ^b   Wagner, William P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dependency diagram; Domain complexity; Elicitation transcript; Interview; Knowledge acquisition; Protocol analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

(ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; ELSEVIER (CO); EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL; PROBLEMATIC ISSUES; PROTOCOL ANALYSIS;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 44949217529     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.08.004     Document Type: Article

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