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PSM-related events

General Information

Welcome to the KAW-PSM mailing list, which is an unmoderated sublist of the moderated KAW mailing list. Click here for the motivation of the PSM mailing list.

The aim of this list is to discuss ongoing issues related to problem-solving methods (PSMs) and Knowledge Acquisition and Engineering. Within this scope, any mail, remark, question, statement is welcome. Examples of topics related to PSMs and KA/KE include, but are not limited to (taken from the KAW'96 PSM-track CFP):

  • Purpose: what is the purpose of PSMs? (e.g., KBS-construction, KBS-specification, cognitive modeling)
  • Description: How to describe PSMs? (e.g., conceptual, formal, operational)
  • Development: How can we develop PSMs? (based on analysis of human problem solving, based on efficiency concerns, based on available domain knowledge)
  • Mapping: Mapping Tasks to Methods and Methods to Domains (through ontologies, assumptions, etc.)
  • Reuse: Reuse of PSMs? (library issues such as storage, indexing, selection; configuring PSMs; adaption and modification for specific domain)
  • To keep the larger KA community informed, every one or two months a summary of the discussions will be sent to the general KAW list (provided that some discussion has taken place).

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