For graduate-/research- level students and professors, this book integrates machine learning with knowledge acquisition to overcome the problems of building models for knowledge-based systems to maintain them successfully. It also reports on BLIP and MOBAL systems developed over the last decade, which illustrate a particular way of unifying knowledge acquisition and machine learning. Practically-orientated, theoretical skills have been used and tested in real-world applications.

• Integrates machine learning with knowledge acquisition to overcome the problems of building models for knowledge based systems to maintain them successfully
• Reports on BLIP and MOBAL systems that have been developed over the past 10 years, which illustrate a particular way of unifying knowledge acquisition and machine learning
• Practically oriented--theoretical results have been used and tested in real-world applications from the start