Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!EOVUOV11.BITNET!CMSBE1 From: CMSBE1@EOVUOV11.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: S.E. VS. K.E.: bad focussed title, I think... Message-ID: <8804301047.AA21615@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 28 Apr 88 13:06:01 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 Approved: ailist@kl.sri.com Date: 28 April 1988, 09:02:38 EDT From: Juan Francisco Suarez Vicente (KIKO) CMSBE1 at EOVUOV11 To: AILIST at SRI Hello !!! I've received few answers about "Software Eng. VS. Knowledge Eng.", and I'm agree with you. The problem I'd submitted to AILIST was because a few months ago was presented in Spain a Conference with this title, and my opinion was (and still follows being ) against this viewpoint. Spain is an absolute beginner country in AI and K.E. subjects and, how I suposse ocurred in other countries,some people tried to demonstrate that AI techniques and K.E. techniques are "pure invention" and they preferred attack AI than auto-critize their own methods. My personal opinion: I'm agree with K.E. methodologies, and I'd like give "good performance" reasons to its detractors, to demonstrate them that Knowledge Engineering is not a "pure invention"...it's real and very useful !!!! And also I think that K.E. and Soft. Eng. can survive in a perfect symbiosis.Cause of this,"VERSUS" isn't an appropiate word to relate them. There are some conectives more suitables: WITH, AND, etc... Do you think the same? Kiko (CMSBE1@EOVUOV11) SPAIN P.S.: Ahh...thank you too for answers about O-O techniques...