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title: "From Application Shell to Knowledge Acquisition System"
authors:
  - "Gary S. Kahn"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/73"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/0073.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1987
pages: "355-357"
track: "Knowledge Acquisition"
keywords:
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# From Application Shell to Knowledge Acquisition System

Gary S. Kahn

*Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 355-357.

## Abstract

The TEST (Troubleshooting Expert System Tool) architecture greatly aided the development of TOE:: (TEST Devefopment Environment). In particular, the choice of a schematic as opposed to rule-based representation led to a knowledge base characterized by the use of domain-familiar concepts, and sufficient conceptual structure to facilitate several TOE features, includmg knowledge base development through both directeainterviews and the direct manipulation of icons; multiple knowledge-based browsing strategies; heuristic error analysis; and easily-understood debugging techniques.