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ICCS 1997: Conceptual Structures: Fulfilling Peirce's Dream pp 198–212Cite as

Uncovering the conceptual models in ripple down rules

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The need for analysis and modeling of knowledge has been espoused by many researchers as a prerequisite to building knowledge based systems (KBS). This approach has done little to alleviate the knowledge acquisition (KA) bottleneck or the maintenance problems associated with large KBS. For actual KA and maintenance we prefer to use a technique, known as ripple down rules (RDR) that is simple, yet reliable, and later see what models can be produced from the knowledge for the purpose of reuse. Tools based on Formal Concept Analysis have been added to RDR to uncover and explore the underlying conceptual structures.

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  1. Department of Artificial Intelligence School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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Richards, D., Compton, P. (1997). Uncovering the conceptual models in ripple down rules. In: Lukose, D., Delugach, H., Keeler, M., Searle, L., Sowa, J. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Fulfilling Peirce's Dream. ICCS 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1257. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0027871

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