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Learning engineering: The key to automatic knowledge acquisition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

Tomasz Arciszewski
Affiliation:
Systems Engineering Department, School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, U.S.A.

Abstract

Learning engineering is a new subarea of knowledge engineering dealing with the methodological aspects of using learning systems in knowledge acquisition. In this paper, the justification for the development of Learning Engineering is provided, and its major subdomains and research directions are briefly discussed.

Type
Research Abstracts
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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