Group Projects for the Software Engineering of Knowledge Based Systems

This paper describes the conduct of a project which forms part of a module in Knowledge Based Systems (KBS) contained in the syllabus of our BEng degrees in Command & Control, Communications & Information Systems (CIS) and Software Engineering (SE) presented at the Royal Military College of Science (RMCS) Shrivenham. The paper discusses the difficulties experienced and results achieved by groups of students over the last ten years.

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