Enhancing the Knowledge Engineering Process: Contributions from Esprit

In 1983, the Commission of the European Communities launched an ambitious ten-year program in information technology called ESPRIT. The papers in this volume focus on the contributions of the second phase of the program, ESPRIT II, to the area of knowledge engineering, and more specifically, on the trend toward more disciplined knowledge engineering methodologies. The volume captures work centering around the concept of knowledge-level modeling and its use in structuring the complete life-cycle, validating expert systems, acquiring knowledge, enhancing capabilities, and achieving genericity and re-use. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.