Knowledge Engineering: Building Cognitive Assistants for Evidence-Based Reasoning (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107122567)

This book presents a significant advancement in the theory and practice of knowledge engineering, the discipline concerned with the development of intelligent agents that use knowledge and reasoning to perform problem solving and decision-making tasks. It covers the main stages in the development of a knowledge-based agent: understanding the application domain, modeling problem solving in that domain, developing the ontology, learning the reasoning rules, and testing the agent. The book focuses on a special class of agents: cognitive assistants for evidence-based reasoning that learn complex problem-solving expertise directly from human experts, support experts, and nonexperts in problem solving and decision making, and teach their problem-solving expertise to students. A powerful learning agent shell, Disciple-EBR, is included with the book, enabling students, practitioners, and researchers to develop cognitive assistants rapidly in a wide variety of domains that require evidence-based reasoning, including intelligence analysis, cybersecurity, law, forensics, medicine, and education.

Author: Gheorghe Tecuci, Dorin Marcu, Mihai Boicu
ISBN-10: 1107122562
ISBN-13: 9781107122567
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2016
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.56lbs
Size: 10.40h x 7.09w x 1.03d