A Prototype Expert Reference Advisory System for Ethioplan Studies
| dc.contributor.advisor | Chowdhury, G.G. (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Zenebe, Azene | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-27T10:25:18Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-18T12:44:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-05-27T10:25:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-18T12:44:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1996-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Reference serves exist to maximise access to information contained in information centralization. Yet human expense have not achieved this goal as they desired. But the development of the expen system technology the possibilities, have become promising. Demonstration of how the expen system technology could be used in enhancing the reference services for the domain, Ethiopian Studies, in general and for Ethiopian History in particular is the main theme of this thesis.For this purpose a prototype expen reference advisory system was developed following the prototyping approach using the Knowledge Pro Windows version 2.0 shell. The interview, protocol analysis and observation methods for acquiring knowledge from the reference librarians: production rules for representing the acquired knowledge; backward chaining for conferencing mechanism; and graphics and hypertext technology for designing the user interface were employed. In addition to facts about a user's inquiry to be input to the system by the user, the system has an interface with the database program from where facts about the possible sources are retrieved during the system's inference. The system provides the user with possible sources of information or advice as well as an explanation how it reaches to its conclusion and why it asks the user to input some facts. Even though, production rules are not suitable for representing individual users model. overall they are found to be fining for modelling the knowledge of the reference experts in the domain. Besides the interfaces features. for both user and other systems, are found to be quite satisfactory. It sounds to be feasible to develop a working system based on this prototype that could be used both by the end-user and the reference librarians who are interested in the domain. Moreover, the models. tools and approaches that are used in this study could be used for other related domains | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/21337 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Information Science | en_US |
| dc.title | A Prototype Expert Reference Advisory System for Ethioplan Studies | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |