Fundamentals of Expert Systems Technology: Principles and Concepts

This volume presents concise and comprehensive coverage of the principles and concepts that are fundamental to the design of expert systems software and hardware and the development of knowledge-based systems. The volume includes an overview of the symbolic and object-oriented programming languages used to create knowledge representation languages structures, a description of declarative and procedural knowledge representation schemes, a discussion of search algorithms and various numerical and non-numericla techniques for dealing with uncertainty, and an introduction to reasoning with one or more inference engines. The book also provides an overview of the architecrure and functions of blackboard systems, a review of the state of the art in explanation, and a discussion of user interface requirements and integrated systems.