Title :
FLOWTOOL: A procedural-knowledge acquisition tool
Author :
Watkins, A. ; Dimopoulos, Nikitas J. ; Neville, S. ; Li, K.F.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Victoria Univ., BC, Canada
Abstract :
The authors present FLOWTOOL, a procedural-knowledge acquisition tool developed specifically to acquire procedural knowledge associated with the diagnosis and calibration procedures of engineering systems, specifically main trunk amplifiers used for communication and cable-television distribution networks. It uses a graphical user interface to acquire procedural knowledge and delivers a knowledge-base complete with links to related hypermedia document(s). FLOWTOOL has been implemented and operates in a Unix/X-Windows environment and creates rules for NEXPERT OBJECT and PROLOG. FLOWTOOL has been used to capture diagnostic and calibration knowledge pertaining to C-COR main trunk amplifiers
Keywords :
PROLOG; Unix; cable television; calibration; diagnostic expert systems; graphical user interfaces; hypermedia; knowledge acquisition; video amplifiers; FLOWTOOL; Unix/X-Windows environment; cable-television distribution networks; calibration; diagnosis; graphical user interface; hypermedia; main trunk amplifiers; procedural-knowledge acquisition tool; Calibration; Communication cables; Distributed amplifiers; Graphics; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge engineering; Level measurement; Power cables; Protocols; Terrain mapping;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 1993., IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Conference_Location :
Victoria, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0971-5
DOI :
10.1109/PACRIM.1993.407227
