Knowledge Engineering

• Knowledge Engineering is about designing, building, installing and maintaining knowledge based systems.
• It is one place where AI meets Software Engineering.
• So far in this module, we've discussed Rule Based Systems, Logic, case based reasoning and semantic nets.
• We will discuss some other Knowledge Representation mechanisms.
• The process for Engineering these systems is different than traditional programs largely because they are more experimental.
• Also they are more knowledge dependent and thus more domain dependent.
• With traditional software it is often not clear what the user wants or needs. It is usually even less clear with knowledge based systems.