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- Subject: Course Design Techniques for Knowledge-based Systems
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- Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 07:19:24 GMT
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- Design Techniques for Knowledge-based Reasoning Systems
- a 5-day course
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- Amsterdam, October 1-2-5-6-7
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- This course is aimed at university graduates, working in industry,
- governemental agencies and other institutions such as such insurance
- companies,banks etc. who are or will be involved in designing and
- implementing knowledge-based systems. For post-graduate lecturers
- the course will provide a valuable overview of the field.
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- Content
- This course provides technical support for the design and implementation
- phase of the development of a complex knowledge-based reasoning
- system. Formal specification techniques tailored to knowledge-based
- reasoning systems and automated tools supporting these techniques
- will be used
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- About the programme
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- Both presentations and hands-on experience are included throughout
- the course. The material covered in the morning is put into practice in the
- afternoon, using automated tools to support the process of design,
- specification and implementation. This practical work will be on
- Sun-workstations.
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- Programme
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- Thursday, October 1
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- - Task decomposition and modular architecture
- - Decomposing complex reasoning tasks
- - Compositional architectures of knowledge-based reasoning systems
- - Functionality and specification of a reasoning module
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- - Practical exercise: modelling diagnostic reasoning based on
- dynamic hypothesis generation and testing
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- Friday, October 2
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- - Specification of a modular knowledge-based system
- - Description levels of knowledge-based systems; relation to the
- KADS 4-layer model to be used in knowledge analysis
- - Explicit standardized description of interactions between modules and
- control aspects
- - A supervisor component for global control
- - Informal and formal specification techniques
- - A framework for (detailed) specification of modular
- knowledge-based systems: DESIRE (framework for DEsign and
- Specification of Interacting REasoning modules)
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- - Practical exercise: the use of a syntax-directed editor to create
- an example (formal) specification, and of an implementation
- generator to obtain executable code from it
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- Monday, October 5
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- - The use of task-specific tools
- - Task-specific tools for specification (generic task models) and
- implementation (task-specific shells)
- - Dynamic behaviour, flexibility and interactivity of a
- knowledge-based system
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- - Practical exercise: modelling reasoning with dynamic assumptions;
- specification and implementation of an example system using
- task-specific support
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- Tuesday, October 6
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- - Configuration and reuse
- - Reuse of specifications and of implementations; of generic
- architectures and of components (with standardized interface)
- - Classification of standard interaction types
- - Configuration of generic task models
- - Belief revision in a compositional architecture
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- - Practical exercise: configuration of architectures for hypothetical
- reasoning with causal knowledge and for reasoning about a
- changing world and actions
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- Wednesday, October 7
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- - Modelling examples and applications
- - Modelling complex reasoning tasks: reasoning from and about
- viewpoints, reasoning about (design) requirements in design tasks
- - Applications: compositional architectures for routing and for
- designing sets of measures for environmental policy
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- - Practical exercise: configuration of some example architectures
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- Organization
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- Course Director
- Prof.dr. J. Treur, Free University, Amsterdam
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- Background
- Since 1988 prof.dr. J. Treur has been responsible for the development
- and integration of formal specifiation techniques developed for/tailored to
- complex knowledge based reasoning systems within the Artificial
- Intelligence Group at the Free University in Amsterdam. Fundamental and applied research, often together with academic, governmental and
- industrial partners (e.g. Rabobank Nederland, Cap Gemini-Pandata),
- frequently addressed the development and evaluation of a framework
- for (formal) specification of modular knowledge-based reasoning systems DESIRE (framework for
- DEsign and Specification of Interacting REasoning modules). DESIRE,
- provides an environment in which a conceptual model of a system as
- obtained from knowledge acquisition and analysis (e.g. a KADS model)
- can be used to design, specify and implement a real system.
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- A first version of DESIRE was presented at the European Knowledge
- Acquisition Workshop, EKAW-90 in 1990. The current version of
- DESIRE will be presented at the European Conference on AI, ECAI-92,
- in August 1992.
- Additionally, as part of the ECAI-92 conference a workshop on Formal
- Specification Methods for Complex Reasoning Systems will be
- organized by this research group.
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- The Academy for Computer Science, specialising in post-graduate courses
- in computer science, is run jointly by the Vrije Universiteit,
- the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University.
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- Further information:
- Further details can be obtained from
- Drs. J.A.J. Streppel, Academy for Computer Science
- Email: avi@fwi.uva.nl
- Phone: +31 20 525 75 94
- Fax: +31 20 525 74 90
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