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Agent-based knowledge acquisition

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A Future for Knowledge Acquisition (EKAW 1994)

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This paper presents our approach for knowledge acquisition from multiple experts. In order to build a cooperative KBS, representing the knowledge of several experts and intended to multiple users inside an organization, we propose a model of cognitive agent for guiding the process of knowledge acquisition. This model of agent can serve as a basis for specifying the future KBS to be integrated in the organization. An agent-based knowledge acquisition is then seen as the process of identifying the adequate agents and of filling them (both their individual characteristics such as their expertise model or their knowledge graphs, and their social features such as their integration in an organization or their cooperation capabilities).

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    Rose Dieng, Olivier Corby & Sofiane Labidi

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Dieng, R., Corby, O., Labidi, S. (1994). Agent-based knowledge acquisition. In: Steels, L., Schreiber, G., Van de Velde, W. (eds) A Future for Knowledge Acquisition. EKAW 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 867. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58487-0_4

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