Expert Systems (ZSY)

Annotation

Characteristics of expert systems, expert system structure. Phases in expert system development. People involved in an expert system project. Knowledge representation: rules, semantic network, frames, logic. Inference techniques, forward-chaining, backward-chaining, search techniques, nonmonotonic inference. Inexact reasoning: Bayesian approach, certainty theory, fuzzy logic, Dempster-Shafer theory. Design of rule-based and frame-based systems. Knowledge aquisition, knowledge engineering. Expert system development tools and software. Development of expert-systems with the EXSYS Professional development package.