Publisher's Synopsis
Aiming to provide comprehensive coverage of the methodological aspects of building expert systems, this volume presents numerous examples of the application of expert systems technology to typical tasks undertaken by managers and engineers in business and industry. Aspects of building expert systems include their life-cycle, knowledge engineering in expert systems and knowledge acquisition techniques. An array of expert system architectures, techniques and tools, ranging from those used in financial expert systems, process planning, systems design and model based reasoning are described in detail.
