Article,
Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Inference through the World Wide Web
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 46 (6): 729--759 (June 1997)
DOI: 10.1006/ijhc.1996.0122
Abstract
The development of knowledge-based systems involves the management
of a diversity of knowledge sources, computing resources and system
users, often geographically distributed. The knowledge acquisition,
modeling and representation communities have developed a wide range
of tools relevant to the development and management of large-scale
knowledge-based systems, but the majority of these tools run on
individual workstations and use specialist data formats making system
integration and knowledge interchange very problematic. However,
widespread access to the Internet has led to a new era of distributed
client-server computing. In particular, the introduction of support
for forms on World Wide Web in late 1993 has provided an easily
programmable, cross-platform graphic user interface that has become
widely used in innovative interactive systems. This article reports
on the development of open architecture knowledge management tools
operating through the web to support knowledge acquisition, representation
and inference through semantic networks and repertory grids.
