Fundamental Considerations of Competence Assessment for Validation

This paper deals with the very fundamentals of a socalled TURIN(] test methodology for expert system validation which was proposed by the first author (cf. (Knauf, Gonzalez, aatd Philippow 1997), e.g.). First, we survey several concepts of verification and validation. Our favoured concepts axe lucidly characterized by the words that verification guarantees to build the system right whereas validation deals with building the right system. Next, we critically inspect the thought-experiment called the TtmINO test. It turns out that, while this approach may not be sufficient to reveal a system’s intelligence, it provides a suitable methodological background to certify a system’s validity. TILe principles of our validation approach are surveyed.