How To Do With Grids What People Say You Can ’ t

Although the representation of knowledge in grids is convenient for many purposes, there are still some significant limitations. One of the most challenging tasks still remaining is to evaluate the use of grids and personal construct methodology in problems that require constructive alternative generation and access to external tools and databases (i.e., synthesis as opposed to analysis problems). In this paper, we describe three components of an approach in support of this objective: 1. Definition of grid-based methods for interactive alternative generation and constraint discovery; 2. Development of an “open architecture” knowledge acquisition and decision support environment that supports asynchronous communication with external procedures and applications; and 3. Development of facilities for more sophisticated control and guidance of during knowledge acquisition and inference. These components are being implemented in la folie à deux (FAD), an environment that integrates components from Aquinas, a knowledge acquisition workbench based on personal construct theory, with those of Axotl, a knowledge-based decision analysis workbench.

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