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Generation of Visual Languages for Development of Knowledge-Based Systems

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Visual Languages and Applications

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Computer programs that contain the knowledge of human experts and that offer advice on the basis of that knowledge (expert or knowledge-based systems) are assuming increasing importance in commercial and industrial settings. From programs that configure complex electronic instruments to programs that supervise oil drilling to programs that perform risk analysis for insurance underwriters, knowledge-based systems have been created for myriad application tasks. Such systems typically contain large amounts of application-specific expertise encoded as a knowledge base. A generic, application-independent program (an inference engine) uses the knowledge base to generate situation-specific recommendations.

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  1. Medical Computer Science Group, Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, 94305-5479, USA

    Mark A. Musen

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, 724, Japan

    Tadao Ichikawa

  2. Swedish Defence Research Establishment, S-581 11, Linköping, Sweden

    Erland Jungert

  3. Department of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260, USA

    Robert R. Korfhage

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Musen, M.A. (1990). Generation of Visual Languages for Development of Knowledge-Based Systems. In: Ichikawa, T., Jungert, E., Korfhage, R.R. (eds) Visual Languages and Applications. Languages and Information Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0569-9_5

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