Knowledge Acquisition with Acquire

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Knowledge Acquisition with Acquire^Ž

The structured knowledge acquisition methodology implemented in Acquire^Ž helps to maintain the perspective and focus of attention needed to build a thorough and consistent knowledge-based application. This structured approach involves the following steps:

Build Objects
Link Objects
Build Rules
Resolve Conflicts
Build User Interface

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These steps help you manage the knowledge acquisition process by showing where to start and how to progress using steps that are implicitly required, so that you can focus on the knowledge to be captured. Each step doesn't need to be completed before starting the next; you can work on small units of related objects. It may also be useful to complete some details (e.g., object values, rule specifications) after sketching out general relationships by linking objects and and packaging them into rule.

Knowledge Acquisition with AcquireŽ

Knowledge Acquisition with Acquire^Ž