Models for knowledge-acquisition tool design

Knowledge acquisition is a modeling activity for the development of knowledge-based systems. Developers can take advantage of domain-specific knowledge-acquisition tools for the construction of knowledge bases. Modeling for the development of such tools is an activity that is analogous to the modeling for knowledge-based systems. However, there are important differences between the appropriate models for these two goals. The models for the development of domain-specific knowledge-acquisition tools involved can be divided into three major classes: knowledge-structure models, knowledge-acquisition models and design models. These models can help developers to create domain-specific tools for new application domains.