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Unit 13: Expert Systems and its Architecture

6. Explain the general architecture of an expert system. Notes
7. What do you understand by Dealing with uncertainty?
8. What is ES Shell? Identify the advantages and disadvantages of Expert System Shells.
9. Explain the applications of Expert system.

10. Describe the concept of Programming Environments of expert system.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. Expert System 2. Domain
3. Forward 4. Backward
5. End-user 6. Inference Rule

7. Operating Systems 8. Decision-making
9. Common Sense 10. Problems
11. Conventional 12. Shell
13. Es Shell 14. Uncertainty
15. Qualitative Analysis 16. Speech

17. Speech Synthesis

13.13 Further Readings

Books Antonelli, D. 1983. The application of artificial intelligence to a maintenance and diagnostic
information system (MDIS). Proceedings of the Joint Services Workshop on Artificial
Intelligence in Maintenance. Boulder, CO.
Boose, J.H. 1984. Personal construct theory and the transfer of human expertise.
Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-84),
p. 27-33, Austin, Texas.
Boose, J.H. 1985. A knowledge acquisition program for expert systems based on personal
construct psychology. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 23, 495-525.
Boose, J.H. 1986a. Expertise Transfer for Expert System Design, New York; Elsevier.
Boose, J.H. 1986b. Rapid acquisition and combination of knowledge from multiple experts
in the same domain. Future Computing Systems Journal, 1, 191-216.
Boose, J.H. 1988. Uses of repertory grid-centered knowledge acquisition tools for knowledge-
based systems. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 29, 287-310.
Boose, J.H. 1989. A survey of knowledge acquisition techniques and tools. Knowledge
acquisition: An international journal of knowledge acquisition for knowledge-
based systems, in press. Vol. 1, No. 1.
Boose, J.H., and Bradshaw, J.M. 1987b. AQUINAS: A knowledge acquisition workbench
for building knowledge based systems. Proceedings of the First European Workshop
on Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems (pp. A6.1-6). Reading
University.

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