Accession Number:

ADA459766

Title:

EXPECT: A User-Centered Environment for the Development and Adaptation of Knowledge-Based Planning Aids

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MARINA DEL REY INFORMATION SCIENCES INST

Personal Author(s):

• Swartout, William R.
• Gil, Yolanda

Report Date:

1996-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

10.0

Abstract:

EXPECT provides an environment for developing knowledge-based systems that allows end-users to add new knowledge without needing to understand the details of system organization and implementation. The key to EXPECTs approach is that it understands the structure of the knowledge-based system being built how it solves problems and what knowledge it needs to support problem-solving. EXPECT uses this information to guide users in maintaining the knowledge-based system. We have used EXPECT to develop a tool for evaluating transportation plans.

Descriptors:

• *KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS
• TRANSPORTATION
• ORGANIZATIONS
• PROBLEM SOLVING
• SYSTEMS APPROACH
• PLANNING
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software
• Cybernetics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE