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From: davel@cbnewsl.att.com (David Loewenstern)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Knowledge Acquisition
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.175351.11118@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 25 Apr 91 17:53:51 GMT
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Here are the suggestions and pointers I received in response to 
my request for information about KA.  I am currently evaluating
Brule and Blount, and McGraw and Harbison-Briggs.

Thanks to all who responded!

These opinions are shareware.  If you like the product,
please send your $0.02 to
               David Loewenstern
   {backbone!}att!whutt!davel which is davel@whutt.att.com

From: "Dickson Lukose" <lukose@deakin.OZ.AU>
Department: Department of Computing and Mathematics
Institution: Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria 3217, Australia

These are my suggestions:-

MARCUS, S.,(1988); Automating Knowledge Acquisition for Expert Systems, Sandra
Marcus (ed), Kluwer Academic Publishers, USA, 1988

BOOSE, J.H., (1986); Expertise Transfer for Expert System Design, Elsevier 
Science Publishing Company Inc., New York, U.S.A., 1986.

KIDD, A.L., (1987); Knowledge Acquisition for Expert Systems: A Practical Handbook, Alison L. Kidd (ed), Plenum Press, New York, U.S.A., (1987).


PS:  I would appreciated it very much if you could please send me all the 
     pointers you receive. 

regards
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DICKSON LUKOSE        	                  lukose@deakin.OZ.AU
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From: jfbrule@rodan.acs.syr.edu (J F Brule)
Organization: Coherent Research, Inc., Syracuse, NY

Allow me to suggest "Knowledge Acquisition," by Brule' & Blount, 
McGraw-Hill, 1989. This non-biased observer thinks it's a great
book! :-)

 ~~~Jim



From: Warren Mosely (phone message)
Organization: CMU

recommended McGraw and Harbison-Briggs, Knowledge Acquisition, 
Prentice-Hall, 1989.