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Ripple-Down Rules (RDR) has the goal of simple, incremental development of a knowledge-based system (KBS) while the KBS is already in use, so that over time an expert can evolve a sophisticated KBS as a minor extension of their normal duties. RDR has had considerable success in developing classification KBS. It has been extended to configuration, heuristic search and other tasks. This paper proposes a generalisation of RDR that may enable experts to evolve KBS for a range of tasks.
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Compton, P., Richards, D. (2000). Generalising Ripple-Down Rules. In: Dieng, R., Corby, O. (eds) Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Methods, Models, and Tools. EKAW 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1937. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39967-4_29
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