Knowledge Acquisition in Practice: A Step-by-step Guide

✍ Scribed by Nicholas Ross Milton

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 189
• Series: Decision Engineering
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is the first book to provide a step-by-step guide to the methods and practical aspects of acquiring, modelling, storing and sharing knowledge. The reader is led through 47 steps from the inception of a project to its conclusion. Each is described in terms of reasons, required resources, activities, and solutions to common problems. In addition, each step has a checklist which tracks the key items that should be achieved.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Decision Engineering......Page 2
Knowledge Acquisition in Practice......Page 4
ISBN 9781846288609......Page 5
Foreword......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
1. Introduction......Page 14
2. Overview of the Step-by-step Procedure......Page 22
3. Start, Scope and Plan the Project......Page 36
4. Initial Capture and Modelling......Page 74
5. Detailed Capture and Modelling......Page 126
6. Share the Stored Knowledge......Page 154
7. Implementation Issues......Page 172
Appendix 1: General Technological Ontology (GTO)......Page 182
Appendix 2: Effort Required for Knowledge Acquisition......Page 183
Glossary......Page 184
References and Bibliography......Page 186
Index......Page 188