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Problem-solving methods (PSMs) are often used as means to achieve efficient knowledge-based systems. However, depending on how ‘efficiency’ is characterized, different conceptions of PSMs are possible. The value of a particular view of efficiency in knowledge engineering is defended, and it is shown how such considerations lend support to the GDM methodology.
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O'Hara, K., Shadbolt, N. (1996). The thin end of the wedge: Efficiency and the generalised directive model methodology. In: Shadbolt, N., O'Hara, K., Schreiber, G. (eds) Advances in Knowledge Acquisition. EKAW 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1076. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61273-4_3
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