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We agree that even though technologies have been perfected during the last years and therefore performance of KBS has been improved, the crucial problem and bottleneck for the development of KBS remains the same: knowledge acquisition (KA), Why? In every project, experienced developers have in mind somehow a way to deal with knowledge and what steps they can follow. However, inexperienced developers want to know how to undertake the project. They need a number of good guidelines, preferably those that have proven to work well in practice. We will show it is extremely important to follow a software or knowledge engineering methodology. Nonetheless, at recent specialized conferences and workshops the following questions arise: Do we really need a methodology? Do you really believe methodologies work? We will try to oér some ideas, through the KAMET methodology, to clarify these points. y This project has been partially funded by CONACYT as project number D.A.J-J002-222-98-16-II-98 (REDII).
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Cairó, O., Barreiro, J., Solsona, F. (1999). Software Methodologies at Risk. In: Fensel, D., Studer, R. (eds) Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management. EKAW 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1621. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48775-1_21
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