Expert Systems: A User’s Perspective of Some Current Tools

Application Systems

Volume

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2

Knowledge/Databases

The purpose of this paper is to report on one user’s experience with several of the software tools for building an expert system. To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first time a number of different expert system building tools have been applied to a single problem by a single analyst. A similar single problem/different tool experiment was performed at the Expert Systems Workshop in 1980, but each tool was used by its own proponents on the given problem.