Knowledge Acquisition, Modelling and Management: 10th European Workshop, Ekaw '97, Sant Feliu De Guixols, Catalonia, Spain, October 15-18, 1997: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modelling and Management, EKAW '97, held in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Catalonia, Spain, in October 1997. The 20 revised full papers and 11 short papers presented were carefully selected from numerous submissions. Also included is one invited presentation. Among the topics covered are the mainstream knowledge acquisition issues, but also more innovative ones, knowledge integration, enterprise modelling, knowledge reuse, natural language processing, problem solving, knowledge extraction, Web-based knowledge systems, machine learning, data mining, etc. Acquisition of search knowledge....Pages 1-16 A systematic approach to the functionality of problem-solving methods....Pages 17-32 An ontology approach to product disassembly....Pages 33-48 Knowledge refinement for a design system....Pages 49-64 Compositional verification of knowledge-based systems: A case study for diagnostic reasoning....Pages 65-80 An enterprise reference scheme for integrating model based knowledge engineering and enterprise modelling....Pages 81-96 The tower-of-adapters method for developing and reusing problem-solving methods....Pages 97-112 Using ontologies for defining tasks, problem-solving methods and their mappings....Pages 113-128 An empirical evaluation of a system for text knowledge acquisition....Pages 129-144 Acquisition of conceptual structure in scientific theories....Pages 145-158 Designing operators for constructing domain knowledge ontologies....Pages 159-173 Reuse of problem-solving methods and family resemblances....Pages 174-189 Specification of flexible knowledge-based systems....Pages 190-204 Problem solving for redesign....Pages 205-220 The notion of role in conceptual modeling....Pages 221-236 Knowledge acquisition first, modelling later....Pages 237-252 Knowledge acquisition for the onboard planner of an autonomous spacecraft....Pages 253-268 Information tuning with KARAT: Capitalizing on existing documents....Pages 269-284 Syntactic parsing as a knowledge acquisition problem....Pages 285-300 Building up and making use of corporate knowledge repositories....Pages 301-316 Modelling competitive co-operation of agents in a compositional multi-agent framework....Pages 317-322 An instrument for a purpose driven comparison of modelling frameworks....Pages 323-328 Knowledge discovery in rule bases....Pages 329-334 Supporting probability elicitation by sensitivity analysis....Pages 335-340 Towards more collaboration between machine learning systems and their users....Pages 341-346 COATIS, an NLP system to locate expressions of actions connected by causality links....Pages 347-352 Using knowledge acquisition to build spoken language systems....Pages 353-358 An assistant for a design project: Application to the design of a mixed hardware/software architecture....Pages 359-364 REVINOS : An interactive revision tool based on the concept of situation....Pages 365-370 KIDS for KADS....Pages 371-376 Exploiting inductive bias shift in knowledge acquisition from ill-structured domains....Pages 377-382 The DARPA high performance knowledge bases programme....Pages 383-388

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modelling and Management, EKAW '97, held in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Catalonia, Spain, in October 1997.
The 20 revised full papers and 11 short papers presented were carefully selected from numerous submissions. Also included is one invited presentation. Among the topics covered are the mainstream knowledge acquisition issues, but also more innovative ones, knowledge integration, enterprise modelling, knowledge reuse, natural language processing, problem solving, knowledge extraction, Web-based knowledge systems, machine learning, data mining, etc.