2. Kickoff Meeting Agenda
Project Stakeholders Plan
• Background • Role • Project Phases
• Goal / Objectives • ROI / Benefit • Work Plan
3. Project / Background
The idea of using Expert System originally
came from the need of Kenanaonline to
organize and manage knowledge published
by the community and facilitate the Access to
Knowledge.
Kenanaonline is a community web publishing
platform supported by ICT Trust Fund / MCIT.
5. Project / Goal
Identify a workable model of building
efficient Knowledge Bases for solving
problems in specific knowledge
domains through the use of Expert
Systems.
6. The Expert System Model
Domain Knowledge Knowledge Expert
Specialists Engineering Rules System
Know How Training Acquisition Platform
8. Stakeholders / CLAES
The Central Lab
for Agricultural Expert System
Dr. Ahmed Rafea brief about the role
of CLAES in the expert system field.
9. Stakeholders / CLAES / Role
CLAES Roles:
• Provides Knowledge Engineers.
• Hand On Training of the Knowledge domain
specialists
• Provide the Self Training Materials content.
10. Stakeholders / CLAES / Role
CLAES Benefit:
• Empowers the community with a user friendly
Expert System tools.
• Provides self paced training material.
• Develops a community of specialists building
their own Expert systems
• Marketing of the already developed advanced
Expert Systems
11. Stakeholders / Domain Experts
Role:
Capture their domain specific knowledge into an
Expert System.
Benefit:
- Full ownership of the online Expert system
- Opening new Market, business opportunities
- Technical and Knowledge support / training
12. Stakeholders / Organizations, Partners
Role:
• Empower their specialists with a user friendly
Expert System tools.
• Provide self paced training material.
• Build their own organization Expert System
Benefit:
- Full ownership of the online Expert system
- Opening new Market, business opportunities
- Technical and Knowledge support / training
13. Stakeholders / Organizations, Partners
• Partner organizations in this project:
– Salasel
– Research Centers
– GAFRD
Dr. Wael Rafae brief on Salasel
14. Project Plan
Foundational Phase March – October 2012
• Literature Review
• Situational Analysis
• Selection of micro topics on which knowledge
bases will be developed
• Selection of knowledge experts
• Develop Expert System Tools
• Develop partnerships
15. Project Plan
Pilot Phase ( December 2012 – January 2013 )
- Develop 3 Expert Systems
- Develop Self Paced multimedia training Material
Training Phase ( February – April 2013 )
• Conduct awareness and training workshops
• Training a group of experts on developing knowledge
bases
• Evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of the
knowledge bases.
• Evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of the
Expert System Tool
16. Work Plan
- The level of effort required for the Pilot phase is
from 10 to 15 days.
- The Domain Experts Hand on Training will be
from 9 to 20 December.
- An individual schedule will be planned for each
domain expert.
- Hand on Training will be conducted in groups
based on the knowledge domain.
Thank you