Knowledge engineering: Survey and future directions

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

Volumn 1570 LNAI, Issue , 1999, Pages 1-23

  Studer, Rudi ^a   Fensel, Dieter ^a   Decker, Stefan ^a   Benjamins, V Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SURVEYS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

INTELLIGENT INFORMATION; MODEL APPROACH; MODEL FRAMEWORK; PARADIGM SHIFTS; PROBLEM-SOLVING METHODS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 84901720850     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/10703016_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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