Combining cases and rules to provide contextualised knowledge based systems

Debbie Richards*

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Abstract

Providing contextualised knowledge often involves the difficult and timeconsuming task of specifying the appropriate contexts in which the knowledge applies. This paper describes the Ripple Down Rules (RDR) knowledge acquisition and representation technique which does not attempt to define up front the possible context/s. Instead cases and the exception structure provide the context and rules provide the index by which to retrieve the case/s. KA is incremental. The domain expert locally patches rules as new cases are seen. Thus, RDR is a hybrid case-based and rule-based approach. The use of Formal Concept Analysis to translate the RDR performance system into a formal context and uncover an explanation system in the form of an abstraction hierarchy further strengthens our emphasis on the combined use of cases and rules to provide contextualised knowledge.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationModeling and Using Context
Subtitle of host publicationThird International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2001 Dundee, UK, July 27–30, 2001 Proceedings
EditorsVarol Akman, Paolo Bouquet, Richmond Thomason, Roger Young
Place of PublicationBerlin; New York
PublisherSpringer, Springer Nature
Pages465-469
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9783540446071
ISBN (Print)9783540423799
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2001
Event3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on the Topic of Context, CONTEXT - 2001 - Dundee, United Kingdom
Duration: 27 Jul 200130 Jul 2001

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume2116
ISSN (Print)03029743
ISSN (Electronic)16113349

Other

Other3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on the Topic of Context, CONTEXT - 2001
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityDundee
Period27/07/0130/07/01

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