The aim of the present paper is the analysis of rule systems used in the implemented Intelligent Tutorial Systems using various technologies. The ready – made shells are used for majority of the systems being discussed herein; the CTAT shell is the most popular type. The rule programming languages i.e. Prolog, SmallTack and others have been used as the basis in the remaining cases. Those tools ...

the present study aims to examine how to create alternative methodology in social sciences by using qualitative approach of grounded theory and implementing focus group workshops and performing semi-structured interviews with expert professors in social science methodology. the method of the present research is qualitative approach of grounded theory; focus group workshops were held and semi-st...

This study aims to determine the priority factors in development of plantation commodities, including cocoa, coffee, coconut, and oil palm as substitutes East Kolaka District-Southeast Sulawesi.The method used is analytic hierarchy process (AHP) expert choice software 11. The AHP includes: (a) developing a hierarchy; (b) determining priorities, (c) calculating consistency ratio (CR). test (CR) ...

Expert finding addresses the problem of retrieving a ranked list of people who are knowledgeable on a given topic. Several models have been proposed to solve this task, but so far these have focused solely on returning the most knowledgeable people as experts on a particular topic. In this paper we argue that in a real-world organizational setting the notion of the “best expert” also depends on...

BACKGROUND In the choice and definition of quality of care indicators, there may be an inherent tension between feasibility, generally enhanced by simplicity, and validity, generally enhanced by accounting for clinical complexity. OBJECTIVE To study the process of developing quality indicators using an expert panel and analyze the tension between feasibility and validity. DESIGN AND PARTICI...

This project provides a good case study of expert system development with untrained experts over a short period of time. We describe the development of a working medical screening and diagnosis expert system for use at the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) clinics in Madison County, Illinois. The system was designed and implemented over the period of four months. A large number of knowledge acq...