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title: "AGE (Attempt to Generalize): A Knowledge-Based Program for Building Knowledge-Based Programs"
authors:
  - "H. Penny Nii"
  - "Nelleke Aiello"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/142"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0142.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1979
pages: ""
track: ""
keywords:
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# AGE (Attempt to Generalize): A Knowledge-Based Program for Building Knowledge-Based Programs

H. Penny Nii, Nelleke Aiello

*Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*.

## Abstract

The goal of the ACE project Is to demystify and make explicit the art of Jt.nowledgt engineering. It Is an attempt to formulate the knowledge that knowledge engineers use In constructing knowledge-based programs and/ut It at the disposal of others in the form of a software laboratory. To achieve this goal, the task for AC Is divided Into two main sub-tasks: (I) isolating techniques used in knowledge-based systems and programming those that are general and useful (2) building an Intelligent agent to guide In the use of these techniques. Currently ACE has a facility to build programs using the Blackboard Model [8,13].