Review of Verification, Validation, and Test of Knowledge-Based Systems

Another issue concerned The survey of 80 KBS developers in Knowledge-Based Systems, Marc Ayel structural validation of KBS, given financial domains by Daniel O'Leary and Jean-Pierre Laurent, eds., John that the architecture of these systems opens the collection and raises some Wiley and Sons, Chichester, England, (having separate knowledge base and interesting points. VVT is revealed to 1991, 219 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0-471- inference engine components) was be a significant concern, with developers 93018-0 (paper). Testing his volume contains a selection First European Workshop on studies were launched to determine with real and contrived test cases was Verification, Validation, and Test of the applicability of software engineering found to account for about half the Knowledge-Based Systems, held evaluation techniques to overall VVT effort on average, with during the 1990 European Conference KBSs and to develop new techniques direct inspection of the knowledge on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI specific to KBSs. Several such studies base accounting for another 30 percent 90) in Stockholm, Sweden. In reviewing were initiated by organizations that in the survey.