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title: "Specification and Generation of Custom-Tailored Knowledge-Acquisition Tools"
authors:
  - "Henrik Eriksson"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1993/72"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1993/0072.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1993
pages: "510-517"
track: "Knowledge Base Technology"
keywords:
---

# Specification and Generation of Custom-Tailored Knowledge-Acquisition Tools

Henrik Eriksson

*Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 510-517.

## Abstract

Domain-oriented knowledge-acquisition tools provide efficient support for the design of knowledge-based systems. However, the cost of developing such tools is high, especially when their restricted scope is taken into account. Developers can use metalevel tools to generate domain-oriented knowledge-acquisition tools that are custom tailored for a small group of experts, with considerably less effort than is required for manual tool development. An epistemic obstacle to creating such metatools is the specification model -for target knowledge-acquisition tools. The metatool DOTS is based on an abstract-architecture approach to the specification and generation of knowledge-acquisition tools. DoTS is domain and method independent, because it is based on an architectural model of the target knowledgeacquisition tool.