Title: Knowledge acquisition: an approach for Navy career counselling

Authors: Wen-Shuan Tseng, Hang Nguyen, Jay Liebowitz, Timothy Adams

Addresses: Department of Information Technology, Graduate Division of Business and Management, Johns Hopkins University, 9605 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850–3332, USA. ' Department of Information Technology, Graduate Division of Business and Management, Johns Hopkins University, 9605 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850–3332, USA. ' Department of Information Technology, Graduate Division of Business and Management, Johns Hopkins University, 9605 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850–3332, USA. ' NAVAIRSYSCOM, Naval Air Systems Command, 22095 Fortin Circle Unit 1489, Patuxent River, Maryland 20670–1139, USA

Abstract: In this paper, we describe the career counselling domain of the US Navy. Through this understanding, we develop two sets of generic knowledge acquisition methodologies: a hybrid approach of CommonKADS and multiple classification Ripple Down Rules, and a concept mapping approach to form the career counselling knowledge-base for the Sailor assignment problem. The acquired knowledge will then be incorporated into the Navy career counsellor agent in the Web-based marketplace multi-agent system, being developed at the Navy Personnel Research Studies and Technology (NPRST) agency.

Keywords: learning; innovation; knowledge acquisition; navy; career counselling; concept maps; decision tables; business rules; United States; USA.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIL.2007.012581

International Journal of Innovation and Learning, 2007 Vol.4 No.4, pp.342 - 356

Published online: 24 Feb 2007 *

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