Task driven specification of a knowledge acquisition tool for medical diagnosis (KAT-MED)

The authors' knowledge acquisition methodology is moving away, from reliance on the knowledge engineer, as a skilled interviewer, to the development of task and model driven tools. Such tools, based on strong domain models, are very useful in well structured areas such as medicine. The authors' project investigates a more general approach based on the decomposition of expertise into generic tasks, and the epistemological (four layer) description of conceptual/interpretation models of expertise in the KADS methodology.<
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