The Listener is an automated system that unintrusively performs knowledge acquisition from informal input. The Listener develops a coherent internal representation of a description from an initial set of disorganized, imprecise, incomplete, ambiguous, and possibly inconsistent statements. The Listener can…

La Educación Ambiental (EA) es una de las herramientas fundamentales para desarrollar actitudes, opiniones, creencias y conductas apropiadas que vinculen las relaciones entre los humanos y el entorno natural de una forma más sustentable. Los talleres interactivos son una forma…

This thesis investigates Plato's analogy between virtue and crafts, a comparison made extensively in the early dialogues. I first detail the model of technical knowledge that Plato uses as a paradigm of knowledge. An application of this model shows the…

This thesis presents a development environment for Design Expert Systems that features a new language where the roles of knowledge and the way it is brought to bear are predefined by the solution method., The language also allows knowledge to…

McGill management certificates are credit continuing education programs. Perceptions of the benefits achieved through participation were investigated, surveying 1424 students in four cohorts: entrants, graduates, alumni and withdrawn., Goals of entrants factored into six categories: career development, gaining knowledge, fulfiling…

This thesis examined the knowledge and processes that adults use to reason about moral dilemmas. Two contrasting analyses of moral reasons, Kohlberg's justice orientation and Gilligan's response orientation, were reviewed and criticized. From this a Moral Reasoning Grammar which formally…

In recent years, research with students identified as academically gifted has focused on what processes enable these students to perform at high levels of ability. The present study was carried out in the context of exploring the role of metacognition…

Recent developments in CAD for electromagnetic devices have utilized knowledge-based programming techniques to simplify the task of design process automation. The ultimate goal is to duplicate the role an expert designer performs in synthesizing devices such as transformers, motors, and…

This thesis focuses on transactional process involved in the construction and operation of the Kuskokwim River Salmon Management Working Group. This cooperative wildlife management mechanism gives Yup'ik commercial and subsistence fishermen and other users a direct role, with the Alaska…

This thesis addresses the problem of how to determine the optimum level of mesh discretization required to solve a magnetic device accurately and efficiently using finite elements. Currently, most finite element packages require user intervention to assure that the mesh…