Empirical Study on Knowledge Based Systems

A first research project, aimed at gathering information about the State-of-the-Practice in building knowledgebased systems with practical applications, needed a preliminary study to ascertain if KBSs still exist today as a research topic, or the interest in them actually faded. The study was also required for finding organisations currently building KBSs for different domains. The project’s aim was to catalogue the software and/or knowledge engineering methods employed by the listed organisations, in order to draw a comprehensive image (State-of-thePractice) of the field. The current paper contains the results of this preliminary study only.