Task driven specification of a knowledge acquisition tool for medical diagnosis (KAT-MED)

The authors´ knowledge acquisition methodology is moving away, from reliance on the knowledge engineer, as a skilled interviewer, to the development of task and model driven tools. Such tools, based on strong domain models, are very useful in well structured areas such as medicine. The authors´ project investigates a more general approach based on the decomposition of expertise into generic tasks, and the epistemological (four layer) description of conceptual/interpretation models of expertise in the KADS methodology