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Knowledge management: learning from knowledge engineering

Knowledge Management (KM) is strongly rooted in the discipline of Knowledge Engineering (KE), which in turn grew partly out of the artificial intelligence field. Despite their close relationship, however, many KM specialists have failed to fully recognize the synergy or acknowledge the power that KE methodologies, techniques, and tools hold for enhancing the state of the art in Knowledge Manage…

An introduction to knowledge engineering

Knowledge Engineering, as a discipline and a profession, has emerged from the practical application of decades of research into artificial intelligence and intelligent systems. In particular, knowledge engineering refers to the development of systems that use knowledge, rather than data, to solve many novel computing problems. This is achieved by the application of computing techniques, closely…

Principles of environmental engineering & science

Edition

4th ed.

ISBN/ISSN

9781259893544

Collation

xvi, 896 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), ma

Series Title

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Call Number

628 DAV p

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