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Artificial Intelligence Parminder Kaur, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 13: Expert Systems and its Architecture

CONTENTS
Objectives

Introduction
13.1 Part of Expert System
13.1.1 Main ES Components

13.2 General Concepts and Characteristics of ES
13.2.1 Chaining
13.2.2 Certainty Factors
13.3 Expert System Architecture

13.3.1 End User
13.3.2 Explanation System (Another Part of Expert System)
13.3.3 Expert Systems versus Problem-solving Systems

13.3.4 Procedure Node Interface
13.3.5 User Interface
13.4 Application of Expert System

13.5 Advantages and Disadvantages
13.5.1 Advantages
13.5.2 Disadvantages

13.6 Types of Problems Solved by Expert Systems
13.7 ES-Shells
13.7.1 Shells
13.7.2 Expert System Programming Environments

13.7.3 Advantages and Disadvantages of Expert System Shells
13.8 Dealing with Uncertainty

13.8.1 Domain Knowledge Representation
13.8.2 User Knowledge Representation
13.8.3 Knowledge Determination and Updating
13.8.4 Model Initialization

13.8.5 Model Updating
13.8.6 Knowledge Value Propagation
13.8.7 Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis

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