Bob J. Wielinga is a Dutch professor at the University of Amsterdam. He has performed research on the methodology of knowledge-based system design and knowledge acquisition

Knowledge engineering

Knowledge engineering was defined in 1983 by Edward Feigenbaum, and Pamela McCorduck as follows:At present, it refers to the building, maintaining and development of knowledge-based systems...

. In 1986, Wielinga was appointed full professor of Social Science Informatics

Information science

-Introduction:Information science is an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information...

 in the Faculty of Psychology. Wielinga leads several research projects, including KADS, ACKnowledge, REFLECT and KADS-II and was one of the main contributors to the development of the KADS methodology for knowledge based system development.

See also

• Knowledge Acquisition and Documentation Structuring
  Knowledge Acquisition and Documentation Structuring
  Knowledge Acquisition and Documentation Structuring is a structured way of developing knowledge-based systems . It was developed at the University of Amsterdam as an alternative to an evolutionary approach and is now accepted as the European standard for knowledge based systems.Its components...
  
  
• CommonKADS
• University of Amsterdam

External links

• The information on this page was taken from Wielinga's homepage at the University of Amsterdam.