Providing descriptive power to guided self-elicitation

Abstract Recent exploratory research developed and tested a guided self-elicitation (GSE) methodology. With GSE, an expert is enabled to capture his/her own performed expertise as production rule-instances. GSE is based on published cognitive research, using a production system view of conscious cognitive information processing and certain demonstrated human abilities: for identifying and categorizing perception, rehearsing and reconstituting prior thought processes and verbal reporting of concurrent cognitive information processing. Experimentally self-elicited decision analyst expertise (leading subjective probability assessment interviews) demonstrates that performed expertise can consist of complex rule-processed knowledge forms. An object model for representing complex knowledge forms is proposed and discussed.