There is extensive theoretical research focusing on the ways in which principal–agent interactions vary depending on the agent’s expertise or knowledge. While the empirical research testing the implications of thesemodels involves a broad array of experts ranging from lawyers to physicians to real estate agents, we are not aware of any empirical research that focuses on how the level of an agen...

This chapter begins by briefly overviewing the early approaches, perspectives, and findings in the expertise research. Basically, the approaches have first focused on exceptional experts, then studies evolved into studying expert performance relative to novices, with emphases on differences in their strategies of searching for a solution, the structure of knowledge, and finally in representatio...

At the Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching we are conducting a study of engineering design expertise in which experts engage in the same tasks as students from a series of previous studies. One study goal is to create a continuum of engineering design expertise across a subset of dimensions (e.g., cognitive, process, affective) to describe learners’ growth toward acquiring expertise. W...

What is Evidence-Based Treatment? 130 What is Research Evidence? 130 Quality of the Evidence 131 Relevance of the Evidence 132 Where does One Find Evidence? 132 What is the Evidence Telling Us? 134 What is Clinical Expertise? 134 Components of Clinical Expertise 136 Enhancing Clinical Expertise 137 When is Clinical Expertise Present? 138 New Competencies Required for EBP 138 Identification of C...

Expertise modeling has been the subject of extensive research in two main disciplines Information Retrieval (IR) and Social Network Analysis (SNA). Both IR and SNA techniques build the expertise model through a document-centric approach providing a macro-perspective on the knowledge emerging from large corpus of static documents. With the emergence of the Web of Data, there has been a significa...

Expertise research shows quite ambiguous results on the abilities of experts in judgment and decision making (JDM) classic models cannot account for. This problem becomes even more accentuated if different levels of expertise are considered. We argue that parallel constraint satisfaction models (PCS) might be a useful base to understand the processes underlying expert JDM and the hitherto exist...

The research will be jointly carried out by the Distributed Software Engineering group, Dept. of Computing, (IC), and the Networks Group, Centre for Communication Systems Research (CCSR), University of Surrey groups have complementary expertise in policy and Quality of Service (QoS) management respectively. IC project a policy toolkit that includes the widely-used Ponder policy language and exp...