Knowledge Engineering
The art of designing and building expert systems. In particular, collecting knowledge and heuristic rules from human experts in their area of specialty and assembling them into a knowledge base or expert system.
Articles on KurzweilAI.net that refer to Knowledge Engineering
The Age of Intelligent Machines, Chapter Eight: The Search for Knowledge By Ray KurzweilThe Age of Intelligent Machines: Footnotes By Ray Kurzweil
The Age of Spiritual Machines: Glossary By Ray Kurzweil
The Age of Intelligent Machines: Chronology By Ray Kurzweil
The Age Intelligent Machines, Chapter Six: Electronic Roots By Ray Kurzweil
The Age of Intelligent Machines: Can Machines Think? By Daniel Dennett
The Age of Intelligent Machines: Thoughts About Artificial Intelligence By Marvin Minsky
The Open Mind Common Sense Project By Push Singh
Research
Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modeling and Knowledge Engineering at LADSEB-CNR
This group performs basic and applied research on the ontological foundations of knowledge engineering and conceptual modeling, exploring the role of ontology in knowledge representation, database design, information retrieval, natural-language processing, multi-agent systems, software engineering, and information systems in general.