Expert Systems Programming: Practical Techniques for Rule-Based Systems

How to prototype and develop an expert system. This practical guide to the tools and techniques used to build expert systems shows you how to choose the best method for the job at hand, saving you weeks of fact-finding and experimental work. Provides dozens of examples that can be applied to popular rule-based systems. Discusses user interface design, reviewing and system testing, multi-valued information, procedural control, and much more. Contains an appendix of sample knowledge bases.