The major achievement of most current qualitative data analysis software systems in social
sciences has been the efficient code‐and‐retrieve abilities. Although such abilities greatly …

In many practical knowledge engineering contexts, interview data is the commonest form in
which information is obtained from domain experts. Having obtained interview data the …

Abstract Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) are developed to contain substantial elements of
human knowledge and expertise in a well-defined domain, and use these to support user or …

Social scientists, over the past sixty years, have developed methodologies to generate
theory through an inductive process based on the intensive analysis of a small number of …

Whilst there is consensus that GISystems should be able to integrate and analyze qualitative
data, there are few mechanisms for achieving this goal. Metadata (data about data) …

Knowledge engineering, knowledge management and conceptual modelling are concerned
with representing knowledge of business and organizational domains. These research …

The starting point of this work is the gap between two distinct traditions in information
engineering: knowledge representation and data-driven modelling. The first tradition …

This chapter on offers a brief overview of the history of computer-aided qualitative data
analysis, describes the basic steps of the analysis process and provides an overview of the …

In this paper we describe an approach to define flexible Knowledge Extraction Systems able
to deal with the inherent vagueness and uncertainty of the Extraction process. We also …

This article describes the use of Cope, which is designed to hold knowledge encoded using
the cognitive mapping techmque. Cognitive mapping is an attempt to operate Personal …