Constructing an expert system—software engineering of a different kind

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Constructing an expert system—software engineering of a different kind

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ACM Annual Computer Science Conference archive
Proceedings of the 1988 ACM sixteenth annual conference on Computer science table of contents

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Pages: 223 - 231

Year of Publication: 1988

ISBN:0-89791-260-8

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Gerard Kiernan	Manhattanville College, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Purchase, New York
Arnold Koltun	Manhattanville College, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Purchase, New York
Edward N. Schwartz	Manhattanville College, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Purchase, New York

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The knowledge engineering and software development tasks involved in constructing software for an expert system are very different from the task of designing an imperative program. Some of the problems in the construction of a rule based expert system include deducing the heuristics of the expert, converting these heuristics into a working taxonomy and rule base, and ordering the rule base so that the system performs efficiently and correctly. We will describe a pictorial method of knowledge representation that we call a “k-tree” and a method of structuring the rule base using what we call “question lattices” that we have found greatly facilitates these tasks.

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CITED BY 2

	G. Kiernam , A. Koltun , E. Schwartz, Programming expert systems at the K-tree level, ACM SIGART Bulletin
	Gerard Kiernan , Arnold Koltun , Edward N. Schwartz, Programming expert systems at the K-tree level, Proceedings of the 17th conference on ACM Annual Computer Science Conference, February 21-23, 1989, Louisville, Kentucky