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In Chapter 1 (Section 1.11) the various stages involved in the development of a KBES were outlined. In this Chapter, we will elaborate on these stages with examples drawn mainly from the COMPASS project for which Prerau (the primary co-author of this chapter) served as the project leader. In the next section (Section 9.2), a brief description of COMPASS is provided. This is followed by discussions of the KBES development cycle (Section 9.3). Knowledge acquisition methodologies are addressed in Section 9.4. Issues in technology transfer are discussed in Section 9.5. Much of this discussion is based on techniques developed by Prerau [62].

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