Expert System to Help Assess Tactical Air Readiness and Capability. Phase I Report. Appendix 1. The Expert's Expertise. Raw Data for the Knowledge Engineering Process

摘要

This appendix contains part of the expert's raw knowledge. This knowledge comes fom three sources. The first is a series of unstructured conversations between knowledge engineers (those people who turn an expert's thinking into a knowledge base and inference system) and substantive experts. Partly edited transcripts from some of these sessions have been included. The second source is a series of informal lectures our experts gave to teach the knowledge engineers basic facts about the world of tactical air assessment. The third source is a set of working notes that describes different problems and how an expert might approach them. Our experts generated these notes while our knowledge engineers simply observed. An additional source, not included in this appendix, are video tapes of working sessions between our experts and knowledge engineers. In these sessions, the experts discussed how they would approach different problems, while the knowledge engineers probed for hidden knowledge (information so obvious to the experts that they do not mention it) general rules of thumb (unwritten rules that real experts use) and heuristics (ways of approaching a problem).