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Pragmatic considerations for effective knowledge acquisition: the case of business expert systems

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Angeliki Poulymenakou,

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Edgar A. WhitelyAuthors Info & Claims

SIGBDP '90: Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGBDP conference on Trends and directions in expert systems

Pages 237 - 246

https://doi.org/10.1145/97709.97727

Published: 01 September 1990 Publication History

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/141342.141343
Whitley EPoulymenakou ACornford T(1991)The spring model for knowledge based systems analysis: a case study involving small and medium sized enterprises[1991] Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Developing and Managing Expert System Programs10.1109/DMESP.1991.171707(346-351)Online publication date: 1991
https://doi.org/10.1109/DMESP.1991.171707
Poulymenakou ACornford TWhitley E(1990)Knowledge acquisition to facilitate organizational problem solvingProceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGBDP conference on Trends and directions in expert systems10.1145/97709.97724(181-188)Online publication date: 1-Sep-1990
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/97709.97724

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Whitley EPoulymenakou ACornford T(1992)The spring model for knowledge-based systems analysisACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems10.1145/141342.14134323:2(1-5)Online publication date: 1-May-1992
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/141342.141343
Whitley EPoulymenakou ACornford T(1991)The spring model for knowledge based systems analysis: a case study involving small and medium sized enterprises[1991] Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Developing and Managing Expert System Programs10.1109/DMESP.1991.171707(346-351)Online publication date: 1991
https://doi.org/10.1109/DMESP.1991.171707
Poulymenakou ACornford TWhitley E(1990)Knowledge acquisition to facilitate organizational problem solvingProceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGBDP conference on Trends and directions in expert systems10.1145/97709.97724(181-188)Online publication date: 1-Sep-1990
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/97709.97724

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