SHERPA: A Knowledge Acquisition Mediator
Goal: support maintaining KBSs
Problem: many KBSs are not built with our framework
Proposed solution: Knowledge Acquisition Mediator
- routes information to many applications from one source, i.e., a knowledge library
- uses an Interdependency Model of how knowledge is used in an application
Benefits:
- selective notification to application builders of library updates
- library maintainers can evaluate the impact of a change
- tools to acquire factual knowledge from domain experts can be built using the model
- model can be used to describe the application to someone who is considering using the application