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3.1.1 Knowledge Elicitation, Acquisition and Validation 
                                                       
  Knowledge is elicited from actors through the process of actor-role centred acquisition. Each task with respect to the EI process is handled by respective 
                                                                                                                  
actor, thus, their roles determines who to elicit KR from. The interaction among them is continuously tracked and captured. We proposed the process of 
                                                                                                                  
declaration and annotation for this dynamic acquisition of KR. The declaration process allows actors to declare KR with respect to their roles and context at 
                                                                                                                  
hand. For example, a decision maker expresses a decision problem which can be externalized in form of a document. The annotation process is used to 
                                                                                                                  
capture the recurrent communication among actors. This supports the necessity of proper understanding and validation of knowledge among them. The 
                                                                                                                  
externalized knowledge undergoes validation to ensure that there is high degree of reliability of KR as conceded by actors. For the implementation of this 
                                                                                                                  
phase, the knowledge acquisition method is case-based algorithm in which roles of actors serve as the cases. Each entry of KR can be distinguished by 

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