Advances in Knowledge Acquisition and Management Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, PKAW 2006, Guilin, China, August 7-8, 2006, Revised Selected Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hoffmann, Achim (Editor), Kang, Byeong-ho (Editor), Richards, Debbie (Editor), Tsumoto, Shusaku (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4303
• Subjects: Computer science.; Database management.; Data mining.; Information storage and retrieval.; Artificial intelligence.; Pattern recognition.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Database Management.; Pattern Recognition.

Since knowledge was recognized as a crucial part of intelligent systems in the 1970s and early 1980s, the problem of the systematic and efficient acquisition of knowledge was an important research problem. In the early days of expert systems, the focus of knowledge acquisition was to design a suitab...