Publisher's Synopsis
Provided here is a practical guide to planning, building, and managing the development of an expert system. It provides comprehensive treatment of expert systems, from basic concepts of knowledge acquisition to maintenance of a completed system. The book contains case studies of three recently constructed expert systems that make extensive use of new features of expert systems development tools, such as database integration and connection to a mainframe computer. There are also illustrations, charts, diagrams, examples, and actual code from working systems. The text has been designed for business programmers, systems analysts, systems managers, and knowledge engineers.
