Title :
Practical treatment of uncertainties appearing in acquisition of knowledge for knowledge based systems in structural engineering
Author_Institution :
Stuttgart Univ., Germany
Abstract :
Uncertainties appearing in, or related to, knowledge acquisition have appeared as one of major problems in development of knowledge-based systems (KBS) applied in the field of structural engineering at the author´s institution. General theoretical concepts have often to be modified and/or combined with the ad hoc developed solutions in order to solve these problems. This is proved by the results of an inquiry involving over 40 engineers, who expressed their understanding of linguistic descriptors of engineering terms and uncertainty estimators used in KBSs
Keywords :
knowledge acquisition; knowledge based systems; structural engineering computing; engineering terms; knowledge acquisition; knowledge-based systems; linguistic descriptors; structural engineering; uncertainty estimators; Expert systems; Humans; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge based systems; Knowledge engineering; Natural languages; Steel; Stress; Structural engineering; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, 1990. Proceedings., First International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
College Park, MD
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2107-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISUMA.1990.151258
