Toward a quality assessment framework for knowledge-based systems

Preece, Alun

doi:10.1016/0164-1212(94)00106-w

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“…The project manager has had 6 months to develop an appropriate TBM metro design package and the design at present is considered immature (based on Preece, 1995) through lack of appropriate design leadership (Boland and Collopy, 2004), and lacking in robust character for the design of a very costly and prestigious metro project. Reasons for this include that the design partners do not take seriously the internal designs reviews required, nor do they take seriously the client requirements leading to a lack of innovation leadership (Kelley, 2001;Austin et al, 1994).…”

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Management Practices in a Formal Design Process for a Metro Project in Doha, Qatar

James

2015

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This is a research paper focused on assessing the design project manager behaviour and the raised managerial design issues relating to a formal design review in a metro project start-up. Very little research has been conducted in this area and the paper exposes weak aspects of the design review process previously unexplored in today's metro construction environments.In order to consider more implicitly the questions and issues raised, this empirical groundwork utilised an interpretive perspective. The scope for this research was the design mechanisms/processes associated with a large single package -a TBM Segment Design. The population for this study was made up of a number of individuals (12) engineers/Managers located at site, and a total of 9 Engineers/Managers were determined as the resultant sample frame.The outcomes consisted of six (6) themes, namely: Mismanagement Issues; Management Interference; Technical Issues; Contractor Design managers Issues; Documentation Issues; Communication Issues, raised from an initial question; these were further developed into four (4) final themes relating to an assessment of the managerial implications.The paper gives a clear insight into the practical issues surrounding a metro design review and the development of appropriate managerial strategies that can be implemented. The paper also addresses some of the implications for continuing design review developments. The paper suggests that projects of this kind may benefit from an Integrated Collaborative Design approach through integrating construction expertise with the design process at the detail design phase.

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Management Practices in a Formal Design Process for a Metro Project in Doha, Qatar

James

2015

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“…These models can be assessed against the TRILLIUM ) evaluation scale, a scale that assess the rigor and formality of a methodology on a scale of one to three (Preece, 1995). The assessment of † TRILLIUM : a framework of assessment developed by Preece for Bell Canada (Preece, 1993) that increases from Level 1 where informal development is used to Level 4 where a completely formal approach is used; see Appendix.…”

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Using meta-knowledge within a multilevel framework for KBS development

Plant

Gamble

1997

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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“…In Sections 3 and 4, we consider eight methodologies for the development of KBSs. This section uses research in methodology assessment, drawing upon the literature from the validation and verification community (Hilal & Soltan, 1991;Howard et al, 1999;Miller, 1990;Mitev, 1994;Nandhakumar & Avison, 1999;Plant, 1997;Preece, 1995;Wasserman & Freman, 1983). 6 We make an empirical evaluation of the rigour and quality of the systems that may be derived from the discussed approaches.…”

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“…A central issue in the discussion of quality is, what are the parameters that define quality? Preece (1995) cites five popular quality criteria and briefly discusses the issue. The criteria he considers are: understandability, modularity, verifiability, efficiency and complexity (Antoniou & Sperschneider, 1994;Ghezzi et al, 1991).…”

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Methodologies for the development of knowledge-based systems, 1982–2002

Plant

Gamble

2003

The Knowledge Engineering Review

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Knowledge-based systems have often been criticised for the limited theoretical base upon which they are constructed. This view asserts that systems are often developed in an ad hoc, individual way that leads to unmaintainable, unreliable and non-rigorous systems. The last decade, however, has seen an increased effort to produce methodologies to counter this view as well as continued research into validation and verification techniques. This paper presents a brief discussion of some of the important research in knowledge-based system life cycles and development methods. Methodologies are considered and are discussed in light of two sets of quality assurance criteria.

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Toward a quality assessment framework for knowledge-based systems

Cited by 9 publications

References 42 publications

Management Practices in a Formal Design Process for a Metro Project in Doha, Qatar

Management Practices in a Formal Design Process for a Metro Project in Doha, Qatar

Using meta-knowledge within a multilevel framework for KBS development

Methodologies for the development of knowledge-based systems, 1982–2002

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