Metatool support for custom-tailored, domain-oriented knowledge acquisition

Abstract Metatool support for knowledge acquisition is an approach to automate the implementation of domain-specific knowledge-acquisition tools. D ots is a metatool that can be used by developers to generate domain-specific knowledge-acquisition tools. Whenever a domain model useful for expressing the relevant expertise can be established, developers can use D ots to specify and generate a knowledge-acquisition environment for development of expert systems. D ots assumes that the knowledge-acquisition tools generated are based on the knowledge-elicitation technique of graphical knowledge editing. A salient aspect of D ots is that no particular domain, task or problem-solving method is presupposed by the metatool. We achieve this generalization by introducing an abstract-architecture view—that is, an architectural model of the target knowledge-acquisition tool—as the framework for specifying target knowledge-acquisition tools. D ots provides facilities for editing this abstract architecture and for instantiating knowledge-acquisition tools from it.

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