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mwKAT: A meta-tool-generated knowledge acquisition tool for multimedia workstations development

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mwKAT is an interactive knowledge acquisition tool for acquiring domain knowledge about multimedia components. It constructs knowledge bases for a consulting system that produces the design specification for a multimedia workstation according to the user requirements.mwKAT is generated from and executed inGAS, a primitives-based generic knowledge acquisition meta-tool. It contains three acquisition primitives, namely, parameter proposing, constraint proposing, and fix proposing to construct an intermediate knowledge base represented by a dependency model. These primitives identify necessary domain knowledge and guide users to propose significant components, constraints, and fix methods into the dependency model.mwKAT also invokes knowledge verification and validation primitives to verify the completeness, consistency, compilability, and correctness of the intermediate knowledge base.

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    Chih-Cheng Chien, Cheng-Seen Ho & Hahn-Ming Lee

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Chien, CC., Ho, CS. & Lee, HM. mwKAT: A meta-tool-generated knowledge acquisition tool for multimedia workstations development. Appl Intell 5, 51–72 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00872783

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