Knowledge engineering
H Smith
6 points * 4 hours per week * Second semester * Caulfield * Prerequisites: SYS4180
This subject provides a grounding in knowledge-engineering techniques, particularly knowledge acquisition and validation of knowledge-based systems. Methodologies for KBS: conceptualisation, formalisation, implementation stages; prototyping versus phased methodologies; diagramming techniques for conceptualisation. Knowledge acquisition: knowledge elicitation and knowledge representation stages. Techniques for knowledge elicitation: interviewing and related verbal techniques, evaluation of verbal techniques from the perspective of cognitive science, knowledge elicitation techniques developed from personal-construct psychology, knowledge induction techniques; evaluation of the role of various knowledge elicitation techniques. Knowledge-based verification and validation: `the public image and private reality' of validation; content validation; development, standards and practice. In 1995, the practical work will be based on knowledge elicitation activities performed as a group.
Assessment
Written (3000 words): 50% * Practical: 50%