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The process of knowledge acquisition is central in the development of intelligent computer programs. In the second generation of expert systems, the elicitation, modeling, and representation of human problem-solving knowledge remain principal barriers that development teams must overcome. This overview surveys some of the major barriers to the construction of expertsystem knowledge bases and reviews current and emerging knowledge-acquisition methods. The common thread that runs through research on knowledge acquisition is the creation of models of problem-solving behavior and the use of those models to guide further knowledge elicitation and model formulation.
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Musen, M.A. (1993). An Overview of Knowledge Acquisition. In: David, JM., Krivine, JP., Simmons, R. (eds) Second Generation Expert Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77927-5_18
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