By Anders Kierulf, Ken Chen, Jurg Nievergelt
Communications of the ACM,
February 1990,
Vol. 33 No. 2, Pages 152-166
10.1145/75577.75581
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Software engineering is an established discipline that has accumulated and codified more than two decades worth of know-how. Knowledge engineering, on the other hand, is an emerging discipline with lots of issues but, at least so far, little structure. Despite its lack of maturity the practice of knowledge engineering promises to have a noticeable impact on software engineering doctrine. The experimental nature of knowledge engineering goes hand-in-hand with a style of software development best characterized as ‘exploratory,’ which has not been much studied in traditional software engineering.
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