Abstract
It will be shown why expert systems should no longer be designed as autonomous problem-solvers but as cooperative systems. A methodology for designing these cooperative expert systems will be presented that combines methods from cognitive engineering with a popular knowledge acquisition approach, namely the the use of task level frameworks. A real world example from the domain of technical troubleshooting will be used to illustrate the four main steps of the methodology.
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