This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 7th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (EKAW 93), held in Toulouse and Caylus, France, in September 1993. Traditionally the EKAW workshops deal with the various aspects of knowledge acquisition as a crucial topic in artificial intelligence as well as in computer science, engineering in general, and cognitive science. EKAW 93 had ist emphasis on knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems; besides the scientific workshop on the inter- disciplinary topic of knowledge acquisition there also was offered an open day as a users' forum open to the public. This proceedings contains the best papers presented at the scientific workshop after they had been selected by an international program committee consisting of leading experts in the field. The volume includes two surveys by Guy Boy and Brian Gaines and is divided in two main parts: the first part on problem solving models has sections on building steps, support tools, and comparison of approaches; the second part on life cycle and methodologies is divided in sections on refinement, methodologies, workbenches, and elicitation techniques.

Methodological knowledge acquisition and knowledge engineering have achievedincreasing attention in recent years due both to active research projects and to successful practical applications. Both aspects have over the years been reflected in the structure of the European Knowledge Acquisition Workshops (EKAW), where a users' forum has always been combined with a scientific workshop. This volume contains the proceedings of EKAW-92. The papers are organized into five thematic sectionson: - Technology transfer - General modelling approaches - Knowledgeformalization and automated methods - Elicitation and diagnosis of human knowledge - Practice and experiences of knowledge acquisition. A total of 65 persons from around the world served as the program committee. Their recommendations and sometimes very detailed comments helped both workshop organizers and individual authors to achieve the high quality reflected in this volume.

Die Informationstechnologie im Zeitalter nach Gutenberg bedeutet neue Herausforderungen fur Autoren, Journalisten und Medienschaffende jeglicher Provenienz. Das Buch vermittelt praxisnah und beispielorientiert das grundlegende Wissen, wie Artikel, Bucher, Zeitschriften online oder offline konzipiert und realisiert werden. Dabei wird insbesondere gezeigt, wie im Internet selbst Moglichkeiten der Unterstutzung bei der Realisierung genutzt werden konnen.
Die Starke des Buches liegt vor allem da, wo sich die Darstellung an die Vermittlung des Wesentlichen halt und nicht bei den Zufalligkeiten konkreter Autorensysteme haften bleibt. Das Buch bleibt auf seine Weise aktuell und grundlegend gleichermassen.
Rezension in "Die Zeit im Buch" 51.Jg., 1/97, S. 15 1997
(...) Kein Ratgeber, sondern ein serioses, umfangreiches Buch mit vielen ung gut recherierten Hintergrundinformationen, (...)"