The humble idea that experts are ordinary human beings leads to surprising conclusions about how to get the best possible expert advice. All too often, experts have monopoly power because of licensing restrictions or because they are government bureaucrats protected from both competition and the...

"This book focuses on the inherent issues to help practitioners in gaining understanding of software development processes aimed at software professionals,students and researchers in the domain of software engineering in order to successfully employ knowledge management procedures"--Provided by...

This paper examines the feasibility of rule-based forecasting, a procedure that applies forecasting expertise and domain knowledge to produce forecasts according to features of the data. We developed a rule base to make annual extrapolation forecasts for economic and demographic time series. The...

We drew upon findings from the diffusion literature to assess the prospects for the diffusion of expert systems in forecasting. Forecasters judged potential adoption of expert systems in relation to two techniques that had been widely adopted in the past, Box-Jenkins and scenarios. They also...

Can a computer program which knows little about the Motor Accidents Act 1988 (NSW), and nothing of comparable verdicts, be relied upon to determine the assessment of bodily injury claims in New South Wales? Colossus, an ‘expert system' developed jointly by GIO Australia and Continuum...

This article explores online blogs as a new forum for discussing ideas and practices in international development. Based on a qualitative study of conversations that take place across multiple blogs, I conclude that the blogosphere combines features of a public sphere, in which people convene to...

ADRIS was a three year research project whose main target was to develop technologies to increase the efficiency of the preparatory works needed to open new exploitation areas in underground coal mines. The project was intended to identify the main automation needs for coal mining roadheading...

Are smarter machines our children's friends? Or can they bring about a transfer from our relatively unskilled children to ourselves that leaves our children and, indeed, all our descendants - worse off?

Are smarter machines our children's friends? Or can they bring about a transfer from our relatively unskilled children to ourselves that leaves our children and, indeed, all our descendants - worse off? This, indeed, is the dire message of the model presented here in which smart machines...