Knowledge Acquisition via Knowledge Integration

Pavel Brazdil & Luís Torgo
1990


Abstract

In this paper we are concerned with the problem of acquiring knowledge by integration. Our aim is to construct an integrated knowledge base from several separate sources. The need to merge knowledge bases arise, for example, when knowledge bases are acquired independently from interactions with several domain experts. As opinions of different domain experts may differ, too. A similar problem can arise also whenever separate knowledge bases are generated by learning algorithms. The objective of integration is to construct one system that exploits all the knowledge that is available and has good performance. The aim of this paper is to discuss the methodology of knowledge integration, describe the implemented system (INTEG.3) and present some concrete results which demonstrate the advantages of this method.