An Empirical Evaluation of Three Knowledge Acquisition Techniques for Developing a Project Management Related Expert System

Abstract

The acquisition of expert knowledge is recognized as one of the major hurdles facing the expert system programmer or knowledge engineer. Unfortunately, knowledge acquisition is seldom addressed in any detail in expert system literature, even though there exist a number of different techniques that a knowledge engineer can use to capture expert knowledge. The purpose of this study was to identify and evaluate the relative effectiveness of three knowledge acquisition techniques that may be used when developing expert systems for project management related tasks. The three techniques were interview, concept mapping, and interruption analysis. An experiment was conducted and quantitative measures of effectiveness were derived. Theses.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA230472

Entities

People

  • Todd T. Vikan

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Data Processing Equipment
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Governments
  • Literature Surveys
  • Processing Equipment
  • Project Management
  • System Software
  • Systems Management
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design