edited by N G Bourbakis (State University of New York, Binghamton)

This book offers a systematic approach to knowledge engineering problems. It gives a brief overview of knowledge engineering systems and environments, covering both classical and recent techniques of the design and evaluation of them. Detailed descriptions of particular techniques and applications are also provided.

• Knowledge Representation Using Semantics of Semantic Networks (A V Hudli)
• Production Rules and Systems: A Top-Down Construction of Bottom-Up Inference (M Perlin)
• KNOWBEL: New Tools for Expert System Development (H Wang et al.)
• COOP: A Self-Assessment Based Approach to Cooperating Expert Systems (S Shekhar & C V Ramamoorthy)
• Knowledge as a Key Component in Intelligent Information Systems (M P Papazoglou)
• A Data Parallel Shell for Large Knowledge Bases (A K Bansal & J L Potter)
• A Knowledge Based Approach for the Specifications and Analysis of Real-Time Software Systems (J J P Tsai & H-C Jang)
• A Tool for Knowledge Base Verification (D Zhang & Nguyen)
• and other papers