Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management

Acquisition of search knowledge.- A systematic approach to the functionality of problem-solving methods.- An ontology approach to product disassembly.- Knowledge refinement for a design system.- Compositional verification of knowledge-based systems: A case study for diagnostic reasoning.- An enterprise reference scheme for integrating model based knowledge engineering and enterprise modelling.- The tower-of-adapters method for developing and reusing problem-solving methods.- Using ontologies for defining tasks, problem-solving methods and their mappings.- An empirical evaluation of a system for text knowledge acquisition.- Acquisition of conceptual structure in scientific theories.- Designing operators for constructing domain knowledge ontologies.- Reuse of problem-solving methods and family resemblances.- Specification of flexible knowledge-based systems.- Problem solving for redesign.- The notion of role in conceptual modeling.- Knowledge acquisition first, modelling later.- Knowledge acquisition for the onboard planner of an autonomous spacecraft.- Information tuning with KARAT: Capitalizing on existing documents.- Syntactic parsing as a knowledge acquisition problem.- Building up and making use of corporate knowledge repositories.- Modelling competitive co-operation of agents in a compositional multi-agent framework.- An instrument for a purpose driven comparison of modelling frameworks.- Knowledge discovery in rule bases.- Supporting probability elicitation by sensitivity analysis.- Towards more collaboration between machine learning systems and their users.- COATIS, an NLP system to locate expressions of actions connected by causality links.- Using knowledge acquisition to build spoken language systems.- An assistant for a design project: Application to the design of a mixed hardware/software architecture.- REVINOS : An interactive revision tool based on the concept of situation.- KIDS for KADS.- Exploiting inductive bias shift in knowledge acquisition from ill-structured domains.- The DARPA high performance knowledge bases programme.