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Philosophical grounding and computational formalization for practice based engineering knowledge

โœ Scribed by W.P.S. Dias


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
174 KB
Volume
20
Category
Article
ISSN
0950-7051

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โœฆ Synopsis


Michael Polanyi's idea of tacit knowing and Martin Heidegger's concept of pre-theoretical shared practice are presented as providing a strong rationale for the notion of practice based knowledge. ArtiWcial Intelligence (AI) approaches such as ArtiWcial Neural Networks (ANN), Case Based Reasoning (CBR) and Grounded Theory (with Interval Probability Theory) are able to model these philosophical concepts related to practice based knowledge. The AI techniques appropriate for modeling Polanyi's and Heidegger's ideas should be founded more on a connectionist rather than a cognitivist paradigm. Examples from engineering practice are used to demonstrate how the above techniques can capture, structure and make available such knowledge to practitioners.