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Input-driven control of rule-based expert systems

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Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 1993)

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Abstract

Most expert system control strategies focus on a narrow view of problem solving, with the resulting expert systems failing to accomplish a good interaction with the task environment during problem solving. Known as the pregnant man problem, such a deficient external behavior is typical of many expert systems that ask absurd questions of the user. Right interaction with the task environment has been already addressed as a verification problem. A new framework for realizing a good external behavior is presented in this paper, that consists of incorporating constraints on external behavior in the control strategy of the expert system. Called input-driven control, it cooperates with the standard control strategies of the Milord II expert system shell for realizing both a correct problem-solving behavior and an appropriate external behavior.

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  1. Dept. de Ciències Matemàtiques í Informàtica, Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07071, Palma Balears, Spain

    Gabriel Valiente Feruglio

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Valiente Feruglio, G. (1993). Input-driven control of rule-based expert systems. In: Komorowski, J., Raś, Z.W. (eds) Methodologies for Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 689. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56804-2_9

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