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| Parts of an Expert System |
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Knowledge Base
Inference Engine
User Interface
Shell |
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| a team of programmers and technical experts needed to create an expert system |
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| Domain expert / human expert |
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| An expert who is an experienced practitioner in a particular field |
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| The knowledge base holds knowledge about the domain. |
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| How knowledge is stored in the knowledge base |
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| stored as a series of facts and IF THEN-ELSE rules |
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| the factual information acquired by the knowledge engineers from the human experts, relating to the subject domain. This type of information would be widely agreed. |
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| information about accurate judgement and the ability to estimate and evaluate. Such rules are not derived from logic alone but are derived from a person’s experience. |
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| How knowledge for the knowledge base is aquired |
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from a variety of sources
* talking to experts
* structured interviews
* unstructured interviews |
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this is software that is designed to consult the knowledge base
it allows users to ask th KB questions |
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| this allows a user to communicate with the Expert System |
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this is a general ES with
* an empty knowledge base
* an inference engine
* a user interface
It can be tailored for specific uses |
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