Abstract
In our daily living, we encounter many complex situations governed by deterministic rules: traffic control mechanisms, security systems, bank transactions, etc. Rule-based expert systems are an efficient tool to deal with these problems. Deterministic rules are the simplest of the methodologies used in expert systems. The knowledge base contains the set of rules defining the problem, and the inference engine draws conclusions applying classic logic to these rules. For a general introduction to rule-based expert systems, see, for example, Buchanan and Shortliffe (1984), Castillo and Alvarez (1991), Durkin (1994), Hayes-Roth (1985), Waterman (1985), and also the readings edited by García and Chien (1991). A practical approach is also given in the book of Pedersen (1989), which includes several algorithms.
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Castillo, E., Gutiérrez, J.M., Hadi, A.S. (1997). Rule-Based Expert Systems. In: Expert Systems and Probabilistic Network Models. Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2270-5_2
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