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20<br />

Acquisition of<br />

Knowledge<br />

Acquisition of knowledge is equally hard for machines as it is for the human<br />

beings. The chapter provides various tools <strong>and</strong> techniques for manual <strong>and</strong><br />

automated acquisition of knowledge. Special emphasis is given to knowledge<br />

acquisition from multiple experts. A structured approach to knowledge<br />

refinement using fuzzy Petri nets has also been presented in the chapter. The<br />

proposed method analyzes the known case histories to refine the parameters<br />

of the knowledge base <strong>and</strong> combines them for their usage in a new problem.<br />

The chapter concludes with the justification of the re<strong>info</strong>rcement learning <strong>and</strong><br />

the inductive logic programming in automated acquisition of knowledge.<br />

20.1 Introduction<br />

The phrase acquisition (elicitation) [2]-[7], [9], [12]-[17] of knowledge, in<br />

general, refers to collection of knowledge from knowledge-rich sources <strong>and</strong> its<br />

orderly placement into the knowledge base. It also allows refinement of<br />

knowledge in the existing knowledge base. The process of acquisition of<br />

knowledge could be carried out manually or automatically. In manual mode,<br />

a knowledge engineer receives knowledge from one or more domain experts,<br />

whereas in automatic mode, a machine learning system is used for

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