Fundamental Considerations of Competence Assessment for Validation

This paper deals with the very fundamentals of a socalled Turing test methodology for expert system validation which was proposed by the first author (cf. (Knauf, Gonzalez, and Philippow 1997), e.g.). First, we survey several concepts of verification and validation. Our favoured concepts are lucidly characterized by the words that verification guarantees to build the system right whereas validation deals with building the right system. Next, we critically inspect the thought-experiment called the Turing test. It turns out that, although this approach may not be sufficient to reveal a system 's intelligence, it provides a suitable methodological background to certify a system's validity. The principles of our validation approach are surveyed. Introduction This paper deals with the very fundamentals of a research program which aims at the development and application of a methodology to validate intelligent systems. What we propose is a Turing test - like methodology using test case..