Web Service Support for Scientific Data Analysis (2009)
Martin J Kollingbaum, Kun Cai, Timothy J Norman, Derek Sleeman, Wamberto Vasconcelos
The analysis of large data sets requires extensive computing resources and detailed knowledge about the analysis process itself. E-Science and Grid computing is an effort to provide computing...
OntoManager: A Workbench Environment to facilitate Ontology Management and Interoperability (2009)
Adil Hameed, Derek Sleeman, Alun Preece
Abstract. The prime motivation for our research is to enable sharing and reuse of domain knowledge through the engineering and management of ontologies. We contend that there is a need to reconcile...
KBS Development through Ontology Mapping and Ontology Driven Acquisition (2009)
The benefits of reuse have long been recognized in the knowledge engineering community where the dream of creating knowledge based systems (KBSs) on-the-fly from libraries of reusable components is...
Capture and Maintenance of Engineering Design Constraints (2008)
Suraj Ajit, Derek Sleeman, David W. Fowler, David Knott
The Designers ’ Workbench is a system, developed by the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) consortium to support designers in large organizations, such as Rolls Royce, by making sure that the...
A Review of the Psychological Literature on Forgetting v.3 18.12.00 (2008)
Abstract: The paper reviews a number of concepts and mature theories in the psychological literature on memory and forgetting. Six theories of forgetting are outlined. Issues are reviewed concerning...
CleOn: Resolution of Lexically Incoherent Concepts in an Engineering Ontology ⋆ (2008)
Quentin Reul, Derek Sleeman, David Fowler
Abstract. Ontologies are vital for the achievement of the Semantic Web. Given their central role it is highly desirable that ontologies be evaluated and made consistent. Several evaluation approaches...
R4: A System to Support the Exploration of Abstract a (Medical) Knowledge Web (2008)
Andy Aiken, Supervisor Professor, Derek Sleeman
descriptions from a set of cases which have been assigned to categories by an expert. The systems generalise values for descriptors (fields) for each of the categories to create category...
Capture and Maintenance of Engineering Design Constraints (2008)
Suraj Ajit, Derek Sleeman, David W. Fowler, David Knott, Kit Hui
Abstract. The Designers ’ Workbench is a system, developed by the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) consortium to support designers in large organizations, such as Rolls Royce, by making sure...
Reul, Quintin, Sleeman, Derek, Crowder, Richard
The principle objective of Work Package 1 within the IPAS project has been to develop a system to support the engineering designer, so that when during the design or redesign process for a particular...
OntoSearch: Retrieval and Reuse of Ontologies (2008)
Edward Thomas, Yi Zhang, Derek Sleeman, Alun Preece, Craig Mckenzie, Joe Wright
This document provides an update on the development of OntoSearch[1][2], an ontology search engine designed to help users find RDF based ontological information on the Semantic Web. It uses the...
ConEditor+: Capture and Maintenance of Constraints in Engineering Design (2008)
Suraj Ajit, Derek Sleeman, David W. Fowler, David Knott, Kit Hui
The Designers ’ Workbench is a system, developed to support designers in large organizations, such as Rolls-Royce, by making sure that the design is consistent with the specification for the...
OntoSearch: Retrieval and Reuse of Ontologies (2008)
Edward Thomas, Yi Zhang, Derek Sleeman, Alun Preece, Craig Mckenzie, Joe Wright
csd.abdn.ac.uk This document provides an update on the development of OntoSearch[1][2], an ontology search engine designed to help users find RDF based ontological information on the Semantic Web 1....
Extending Jess to Handle Uncertainty (2008)
David Corsar, Derek Sleeman, Anne Mckenzie
Computer scientists are often faced with the challenge of having to model the world and its associated uncertainties. One area in particular where modelling uncertainty is important are Expert...
OntoManager: A Workbench Environment to facilitate Ontology Management and Interoperability (2008)
Adil Hameed, Derek Sleeman, Alun Preece
Abstract. The prime motivation for our research is to enable sharing and reuse of domain knowledge through the engineering and management of ontologies. We contend that there is a need to reconcile...
AKT-R4: A Diagnosis Tutor (2008)
Abstract. Diagnosis is difficult to perform and difficult to teach as it requires a large volume of information of various kinds and an appreciation of the differential diagnosis process. The fourth...
User Guided Model Revision (2008)
Gordon Christie, Derek Sleeman, George M. Coghill
Abstract. Model discovery systems are able to use collected domain data to either revise existing models (Prometheus), or create new models (Lagramge). However, these systems do not provide the...
OntoSearch: An Ontology Search Engine 1 (2008)
Yi Zhang, Wamberto Vasconcelos, Derek Sleeman
Reuse of knowledge bases and the semantic web are two promising areas in knowledge technologies. Given some user requirements, finding the suitable ontologies is an important task in both these...
REUSE: REVISITING SISYPHUS-VT (2008)
Derek Sleeman, Trevor Runcie, Peter Gray
Abstract. Reuse has long been a major goal of the Knowledge Engineering community. The focus of this paper is the reuse of domain knowledge acquired for an initial problem solver, with a further...
Ruediger Oehlmann, Pete Edwards, Derek Sleeman
Various cognitive and computational models have addressed the use of previous experience to understand a new domain. In particular, research in case-based reasoning has explored the ideas of...
Identifying Inconsistent CSPs by Relaxation (2008)
Tomas Nordl, Ken Brown, Derek Sleeman
aims to unify problem solving, knowledge acquisition and knowledge-base refinement in a single computational framework. Given a set of Knowledge Bases (KBs) and Problem Solvers (PSs), the...
An AI Approach to the Interpretation of the NMR Spectra of Proteins (2008)
Peter Edwards, Derek Sleeman, Lu Yun Lian
The use of computers in chemistry and biochemistry has been widespread for many years, with machines performing many complex numerical calculations, e.g. solving quantum mechanical problems. However,...
Ontology Inconsistency Handling: Ranking and Rewriting Axioms (2008)
Jeff Z. Pan, Derek Sleeman, Wamberto Vasconcelos
Abstract. Ontology reasoners are able to detect inconsistencies in ontologies; however, there is relatively limited support for resolving the problems. Existing approaches either pinpoint axioms...
Ruediger Oehlmann, Pete Edwards, Derek Sleeman
Metacognition addresses the issues of knowledge about cognition and regulating cognition. We argue that the regulation process should be improved with growing experience. Therefore mental models are...
Characterisation of Knowledge Bases 1 (2008)
Derek Sleeman, Yi Zhang, Wamberto Vasconcelos
The process of determining the principal topic of a Knowledge base (KB), and whether it conforms to a set of user-defined constraints, are important steps in the reuse of Knowledge Bases. We refer to...
Characterisation of Knowledge Bases 1 (2008)
Derek Sleeman, Yi Zhang, Wamberto Vasconcelos
The process of determining the principal topic of a Knowledge base (KB), and whether it conforms to a set of user-defined constraints, are important steps in the reuse of Knowledge Bases. We refer to...
Analysing Time Series Medical Data-sets (2008)
Derek Sleeman, Zhi Luo, Gordon Christie, George Coghill, Peter Andrews, Pat Jones
ABSTRACT At the 1999 AIME Conference [1] we reported a decision tree study on a subset of data, including time series physiological data, admissions characteristics, and outcome after traumatic head...
ONTOSEARCH2: Searching Ontologies Semantically (2008)
Edward Thomas, Jeff Z. Pan, Derek Sleeman
Abstract. While the Web makes an increasing number of ontologies widely available for applications, how to discover ontologies becomes a more challenging issue. Existing approaches are mainly based...
Constraint Relaxation Techniques to Aid the Reuse of Knowledge Bases and Problem Solvers (2008)
Tomas Nordl, Ken Brown, Derek Sleeman
Abstract: Effective re-use of knowledge bases requires the identification of plausible combinations of both problem solvers and knowledge bases, which can be an expensive task. Can we identify...
Identifying inconsistent CSPs by Relaxation (2008)
Tomas Nordl, Ken Brown, Derek Sleeman
Abstract. How do we identify inconsistent CSPs quickly? This paper presents relaxation as one possible method; showing how we can generate relaxed CSPs which are easier to prove inconsistent. We...
Machine Discovery Knowledge Based Refinement Systems (2007)
Derek Sleeman, Eugenio Alberdi, Leo Carbonara, Andrew Mcquatt, Fraser Mitchell, Mark Winter, ...
: This document gives brief descriptions for a number of Machine Discovery and Knowledge Based Refinement Systems which have recently been developed. Further, it gives an indication of their...
MACHINE LEARNING An Artificial Intelligence Approach Contributing authors: (2007)
John Anderson, Ranan Banerji, Gary Bradshaw, Jaime Carbonell, Thomas Dietterich, Norman Haas, ...
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Aberdeen Ab Fx, Derek Sleeman, Derek Sleeman, Simon White, Simon White
This paper introduces a stand-alone case/knowledge acquisition tool, called COCKATOO (Constraint-Capable Knowledge Acquisition Tool), which uses an Extended BNF grammar to represent the main...
OntoManager: A Workbench Environment to facilitate Ontology Management and Interoperability (2007)
Adil Hameed, Derek Sleeman, Alun Preece
Abstract. The prime motivation for our research is to enable sharing and reuse of domain knowledge through the engineering and management of ontologies. We contend that there is a need to reconcile...
Image annotation with Photocopain (2006)
Tuffield, Mischa, Harris, Stephen, Dupplaw, David P., Chakravarthy, Ajay, Brewster, Christopher, Gibbins, Nicholas, ...
Photo annotation is a resource-intensive task, yet is increasingly essential as image archives and personal photo collections grow in size. There is an inherent conflict in the process of describing...
Image annotation with Photocopain (2006)
Tuffield, Mischa, Harris, Stephen, Dupplaw, David P., Chakravarthy, Ajay, Brewster, Christopher, Gibbins, Nicholas, ...
Photo annotation is a resource-intensive task, yet is increasingly essential as image archives and personal photo collections grow in size. There is an inherent conflict in the process of describing...
Image annotation with Photocopain (2006)
Tuffield, Mischa M., Harris, Stephen, Duplaw, David P., Chakravarthy, Ajay, Brewester, Christopher, Gibbins, Nicholas, ...
Photo annotation is a resource-intensive task, yet is increasingly essential as image archives and personal photo collections grow in size. There is an inherent conflict in the process of describing...
Image annotation with Photocopain (2006)
Tuffield, Mischa, Harris, Stephen, Dupplaw, David P., Chakravarthy, Ajay, Brewster, Christopher, Gibbins, Nicholas, ...
Photo annotation is a resource-intensive task, yet is increasingly essential as image archives and personal photo collections grow in size. There is an inherent conflict in the process of describing...
Image annotation with photocopain (2006)
Mischa M. Tuffield, Stephen Harris, Christopher Brewster, Nicholas Gibbins, Fabio Ciravegna, Derek Sleeman, ...
Abstract. Photo annotation is a resource-intensive task, yet is increasingly essential as image archives and personal photo collections grow in size. There is an inherent conflict in the process of...
Ontosearch2: Searching and querying web ontologies (2006)
Jeff Z. Pan, Edward Thomas, Derek Sleeman
Ontologies are important components of web-based applications. While the Web makes an increasing number of ontologies widely available for applications, how to discover ontologies in the Web becomes...
A fine-grained approach to resolving unsatisfiable ontologies (2006)
Jeff Z. Pan, Derek Sleeman, Wamberto Vasconcelos
In the Semantic Web, inconsistencies in OWL ontologies may easily occur. Existing approaches either identify the minimally unsatisfiable sub-ontologies or calculate the maximally satisfiable...
S.: Assisting domain experts to formulate and solve constraint satisfaction problems (2006)
Derek Sleeman, Stuart Chalmers
Abstract. Constraint satisfaction is a powerful approach to solving a wide class of problems. However, as many non-experts have problems formulating tasks as Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs),...
Image annotation with photocopain (2006)
Mischa M. Tuffield, Stephen Harris, Christopher Brewster, Nicholas Gibbins, Fabio Ciravegna, Derek Sleeman, ...
Abstract. Photo annotation is a resource-intensive task, yet is increasingly essential as image archives and personal photo collections grow in size. There is an inherent conflict in the process of...
Norm Refinement: Informing the Re-negotiation of Contracts (2006)
Martin J. Kollingbaum, Timothy J. Norman, Alun Preece, Derek Sleeman
Conflicts between norms are a common problem in open Virtual Organisations and has to be dealt with. Norm-governed agents that populate such VO’s can remain operational only if they are able to...
A fine-grained approach to resolving unsatisfiable ontologies (2006)
Jeff Z. Pan, Derek Sleeman, Wamberto Vasconcelos
In the Semantic Web, inconsistencies in OWL ontologies may easily occur. Existing approaches either identify the minimally unsatisfiable sub-ontologies or calculate the maximally satisfiable...
CleanONTO: Evaluating Taxonomic Relationships in Ontologies (2006)
Consistent ontologies are vital for the growth of the Semantic Web. We describe and appraise the OntoClean methodology and the di#erent implementations available to evaluate taxonomic relationships...
S.: Assisting domain experts to formulate and solve constraint satisfaction problems (2006)
Derek Sleeman, Stuart Chalmers
Abstract. Constraint satisfaction is a powerful approach to solving a wide class of problems. However, as many non-experts have difficulties formulating tasks as Constraint Satisfaction Problems...
Acquisition and Maintenance of Constraints in Engineering Design (2005)
Ajit, Suraj, Sleeman, Derek, Fowler, David, Knott, Dave, Hui, Kit
The Designers’ Workbench is a system, developed by the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) consortium to support designers in large organizations, such as Rolls- Royce, by making sure that a...
Capture and Maintenance of Engineering Design Constraints (2005)
Ajit, Suraj, Sleeman, Derek, Fowler, David, Knott, Dave, Hui, Kit
The Designers’ Workbench is a system, developed by the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) consortium to support designers in large organizations, such as Rolls Royce, by making sure that the...
Reusing JessTab Rules in Protégé (2005)
Corsar, Mr. David, Sleeman, Prof. Derek
Protégé provides a complete ontology and knowledge base management tool. Along with JESS, JessTab provides one method of rule based reasoning over a Protégé ontology and knowledge base. However...
Knowledge Base Reuse Through Constraint Relaxation (2005)
Nordlander, Tomas E., Sleeman, Derek, Brown, Ken N.
Effective reuse of Knowledge Bases (KBs) often entails the expensive task of identifying plausible KB-PS (Problem Solver) combinations. We propose a novel technique based on Constraint Satisfaction...
Graph-Based Ontology Checking (2005)
Lam, Sik Chun (Joey), Sleeman, Derek, Vasconcelos, Wanberto
Despite the growing availability of ontologies, the reuse of existing ontologies is often not possible without con- siderable effort. When one wants to reuse an ontology by importing it into ontology...
Searching and Ranking Ontologies on the Semantic Web (2005)
Thomas, Edward, Alani, Harith, Sleeman, Derek, Brewster, Christopher
The number of ontologies available online is increasing constantly. Tools that are capable of searching, retrieving,and ranking ontologies are becoming crucial to facilitate ontology search and...
OntoSearch: Retrieval and Reuse of Ontologies (2005)
Thomas, Edward, Zhang, Yi, Sleeman, Derek, Preece, Alun, McKenzie, Craig, Wright, Joe
This document provides an update on the development of OntoSearch[1][2], an ontology search engine designed to help users find RDF based ontological information on the Semantic Web. It uses the...
Searching and Ranking Ontologies on the Semantic Web (2005)
Thomas, Edward, Alani, Harith, Sleeman, Derek, Brewster, Christopher
The number of ontologies available online is increasing constantly. Tools that are capable of searching, retrieving, and ranking ontologies are becoming crucial to facilitate ontology search and...
Searching and Ranking Ontologies on the Semantic Web (2005)
Thomas, Edward, Alani, Harith, Sleeman, Derek, Brewster, Christopher
The number of ontologies available online is increasing constantly. Tools that are capable of searching, retrieving, and ranking ontologies are becoming crucial to facilitate ontology search and...
Searching and Ranking Ontologies on the Semantic Web (2005)
Thomas, Edward, Alani, Harith, Sleeman, Derek, Brewster, Christopher
The number of ontologies available online is increasing constantly. Tools that are capable of searching, retrieving, and ranking ontologies are becoming crucial to facilitate ontology search and...
Acquisition and Maintenance of Constraints in Engineering Design (2005)
Suraj Ajit, Derek Sleeman, David W. Fowler, David Knott, Kit Hui
The Designers ’ Workbench is a system, developed by the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) consortium to support designers in large organizations, such as Rolls-Royce, by making sure that a...
OntoSearch: An Ontology Search Engine (2004)
Zhang, Mr. Yi, Vasconcelos, Dr. Wamberto, Sleeman, Prof. Derek
Reuse of knowledge bases and the semantic web are two promising areas in knowledge technologies. Given some user requirements, finding the suitable ontologies is an important task in both these...
ConEditor: Tool to Input and Maintain Constraints (2004)
Ajit, Suraj, Sleeman, Derek, Fowler, David W., Knott, David
We present a tool which helps domain experts capture and maintain constraints. The tool displays parts of an ontology (as classes, sub-classes and properties) in the form of a tree. A number of...
Issues in Moving to a Semantic Web for a Large Corporation (2004)
Wills, Gary, Fowler, David, Sleeman, Derek, Crowder, Richard, Kampa, Simon, Carr, Leslie, ...
The Designers' Workbench: Using Ontologies and Constraints for Configuration. (2004)
Fowler, David W., Sleeman, Derek, Wills, Gary, Lyon, Terry, Knott, David
Typically, complex engineering artifacts are designed by teams who may not all be located in the same building or even city. Additionally, besides having to design a part of an artifact to be...
Advanced Knowledge Technologies at the Midterm: Tools and Methods for the Semantic Web (2004)
Shadbolt, Nigel, Ciravegna, Fabio, Domingue, John, Hall, Wendy, Motta, Enrico, O'Hara, Kieron, ...
Issues in Moving to a Semantic Web for a Large Corporation (2004)
Wills, Gary, Fowler, David, Sleeman, Derek, Crowder, Richard, Kampa, Simon, Carr, Leslie, ...
The Designers' Workbench: Using Ontologies and Constraints for Configuration. (2004)
Fowler, David W., Sleeman, Derek, Wills, Gary, Lyon, Terry, Knott, David
Typically, complex engineering artifacts are designed by teams who may not all be located in the same building or even city. Additionally, besides having to design a part of an artifact to be...
Advanced Knowledge Technologies at the Midterm: Tools and Methods for the Semantic Web (2004)
Shadbolt, Nigel, Ciravegna, Fabio, Domingue, John, Hall, Wendy, Motta, Enrico, O'Hara, Kieron, ...
Issues in Moving to a Semantic Web for a Large Corporation (2004)
Wills, Gary, Fowler, David, Sleeman, Derek, Crowder, Richard, Kampa, Simon, Carr, Leslie, ...
The Designers' Workbench: Using Ontologies and Constraints for Configuration. (2004)
Fowler, David W., Sleeman, Derek, Wills, Gary, Lyon, Terry, Knott, David
Typically, complex engineering artifacts are designed by teams who may not all be located in the same building or even city. Additionally, besides having to design a part of an artifact to be...
Advanced Knowledge Technologies at the Midterm: Tools and Methods for the Semantic Web (2004)
Shadbolt, Nigel, Ciravegna, Fabio, Domingue, John, Hall, Wendy, Motta, Enrico, O'Hara, Kieron, ...
munication,s m Statistics - Theo*'y and Methods (2004)
Nigel Shadbolt, Fabio Ciravegna, John Domingue, Wendy Hall, Enrico Motta, David Robertson, ...
In a celebrated essay on the new electronic media, Marshall McLuhan wrote in 1962: Our private senses are not closed systems but are endlessly translated into each other in that experience which we...
The designers’ workbench: Using ontologies and constraints for configuration,” in (2004)
David W. Fowler, Derek Sleeman, Gary Wills, Terry Lyon, David Knott
Typically, complex engineering artifacts are designed by teams who may not all be located in the same building or even city. Additionally, besides having to design a part of an artifact to be...
The designers’ workbench: Using ontologies and constraints for configuration,” in (2004)
David W. Fowler, Gary Wills, Derek Sleeman, Terry Lyon, David Knott
Rolls-Royce plc
ConEditor: Tool to Input and Maintain Constraints (2004)
Suraj Ajit, Derek Sleeman, David W. Fowler, David Knott
Abstract. We present a tool which helps domain experts capture and maintain constraints. The tool displays parts of an ontology (as classes, sub-classes and properties) in the form of a tree. A...
The designers’ workbench: Using ontologies and constraints for configuration,” in (2004)
David W. Fowler, Gary Wills, Derek Sleeman, Terry Lyon, David Knott
Rolls-Royce plc
Retax+: A cooperative taxonomy revision tool (2004)
Derek Sleeman, Wamberto Vasconcelos
ReTAX is a system that assists domain experts to accommodate a new item in an established taxonomy; it suggests a number of ways in which that can be achieved namely; modifying the new entity, the...
munication,s m Statistics - Theo*'y and Methods (2004)
Nigel Shadbolt, Fabio Ciravegna, John Domingue, Wendy Hall, Enrico Motta, David Robertson, ...
In a celebrated essay on the new electronic media, Marshall McLuhan wrote in 1962: Our private senses are not closed systems but are endlessly translated into each other in that experience which we...
Ontology reconciliation (2004)
Adil Hameed, Alun Preece, Derek Sleeman
Summary. Ontologies are being applied very successfully in supporting information and knowledge exchange between people and organisations. However, for many reasons, different people and...
Ontology reconciliation (2004)
Adil Hameed, Alun Preece, Derek Sleeman
Summary. Ontologies are being applied very successfully in supporting information and knowledge exchange between people and organisations. However, for many reasons, different people and...
Ontology Extraction for Distributed Environments (2003)
Sleeman, Derek, Robertson, David, Potter, Stephen, Schorlemmer, Marco
Existing knowledge base resources have the potential to be valuable components of the Semantic Web and similar knowledge-based environments. However, from the perspective of these environments, these...
Characterisation of Knowledge Bases (2003)
Sleeman, Prof. Derek, Zhang, Mr. Yi, Vasconcelos, Dr. Wamberto
The process of determining the principal topic of a Knowledge base (KB), and whether it conforms to a set of user-defined constraints, are important steps in the reuse of Knowledge Bases. We refer to...
Ontology Reconciliation (2003)
Hameed, Adil, Preece, Alun, Sleeman, Derek
Ontologies are being applied very successfully in supporting information and knowledge exchange between people and organisations. However, for many reasons, different people and organisations will...
A Constraint-Based Approach to the Description & Detection of Fitness-for-Purpose. (2002)
This paper introduces the notion of fitness-for-purpose, presents a tractable, approximate approach to the recognition of fitness-for-purpose, and describes a working implementation using constraint...
Detecting Mismatches Among Experts' Ontologies Acquired through Knowledge Elicitation (2002)
Hameed, Adil, Sleeman, Derek, Preece, Alun
We have constructed a set of ontologies modelled on conceptual structures elicited from several domain experts. Protocols were collected from various experts who advise on the selection/specification...
OntoManager:A Workbench Environment to facilitate Ontology Management and Interoperability (2002)
Hameed, Adil, Sleeman, Derek, Preece, Alun
The prime motivation for our research is to enable sharing and reuse of domain knowledge through the engineering and management of ontologies. We contend that there is a need to reconcile ontologies...
2002b) Knowledge LifeCycle Management over a Distributed Architecture. Expert Update (2002)
Marco Schorlemmer, Stephen Potter, David Robertson, Derek Sleeman
In order to address problems stemming from the dynamic nature of distributed systems, there is a need to be able to express the often neglected notions of the evolution and change of the knowledge...
Ontology Extraction for Distributed Environments (2002)
Derek Sleeman, Stephen Potter, Dave Robertson, Marco Schorlemmer
Existing knowledge base resources have the potential to be valuable components of the Semantic Web and similar knowledge-based environments. However, from the perspective of these environments, these...
Knowledge Life-Cycle Management over a Distributed Architecture (2002)
Marco Schorlemmer, Stephen Potter, David Robertson, Derek Sleeman
In order to address problems stemming from the dynamic nature of distributed systems, there is a need to be able to express the often neglected notions of the evolution and change of the knowledge...
K-ShaRe: Knowledge Sharing and Reuse in AKT. (2001)
Compatangelo, Ernesto, Sleeman, Derek
This paper clarifies the major aims and objectives of knowledge sharing and reuse proposed to the AKT consortium, denoted as K¡ShaRe (and pronounced key-share). Firstly, we outline the regions of...
Better knowledge management through knowledge engineering (2001)
Alun Preece, Alan Flett, Derek Sleeman, David Curry, Nigel Meany, Phil Perry, ...
organizations have a systematic process for capturing knowledge, as distinct from data. The authors illustrate how a large oil and gas service company uses knowledge-engineering processes to capture,...
Better knowledge management through knowledge engineering (2001)
Alun Preece, Alan Flett, Derek Sleeman, David Curry, Nigel Meany, Phil Perry
Abstract: In recent years the term knowledge management has been used to describe the efforts of organisations to capture, store, and deploy knowledge. Most current knowledge management activities...
A.: Detecting Mismatches among Experts' Ontologies Acquired through Knowledge Elicitation (2001)
Adil Hameed, Derek Sleeman, Alun Preece
www.csd.abdn.ac.uk Abstract: We have constructed a set of ontologies modelled on conceptual structures elicited from several domain experts. Protocols were collected from various experts who advise...
At the 1999 AIME Conference [1] we reported a decision tree study on a subset of data, including time series physiological data, admissions characteristics, and outcome after traumatic head injury....
Sleeman, Derek, Edwards, Peter
Partial contents: On Learning More Concepts; Eliminating Redundancy in Explanation Based Learning; Improving Path Planning with Learning; Learning to Predict in Uncertain Continuous Tasks; A Teaching...
Applying KDD techniques to produce Diagnostic rules for Dynamic Systems (1996)
Derek Sleeman, F. Mitchell, R. Milne
This paper argues that there is a discernible trend in Knowledge Acquisition towards systems which are easier for the domain expert to use; such systems ask more focused questions and questions at a...
Informal Qualitative Models: A Systematic Approach to their Generation (1995)
Adrian Gordon, Derek Sleeman, Pete Edwards
This paper discusses the concept of an IQM (Informal Qualitative Model) which is seen as a bridge between rigorous, and often intractable, theories on the one hand, and experimental data on the...
Informal Qualitative Models: A Systematic Approach to their Generation (1995)
Adrian Gordon, Derek Sleeman, Pete Edwards
This paper discusses the concept of an IQM (Informal Qualitative Model) which is seen as a bridge between rigorous, and often intractable, theories on the one hand, and experimental data on the...
Self-Questioning and Experimentation: An Index Vocabulary of Situated Interaction (1995)
Ruediger Oehlmann, Pete Edwards, Derek Sleeman
Various cognitive and computational models have addressed the use of previous experience to understand a new domain. In particular, research in case-based reasoning has explored the ideas of...