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

Volume

1

fYear

1993

fDate

19-21 May 1993

Firstpage

31

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 1993., IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0971-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACRIM.1993.407227

Filename

407227