EXPERT SYSTEMS IndustriaI Engineering Perspective

Expert Systems: A Management Perspective

Expert systems are computer programmes that can reproduce the behaviour of human experts in specific problem domains. In many places, development of expert systems is the major focus of fifth generation software projects. Accordingly, enormous amounts of resources are being spent on work in this field. Expert systems have enjoyed considerable success in many scientific and technological applica...

Applying Reliability Engineering to Expert Systems

Often a rule-based system is tested by checking its performance on a number of test cases with known solutions, modii~’ing the system until it gives the correct results ibr all or a sufficiently high proportion of the test cases. However, the performance on the test cases may not accurately predict performance of the system in actual use. In this paper we discuss why this testing method does no...

The Engineering of expert systems testing process

Every expert system must continuously evolve, or it will become obsolete. This paper explores a successive testing process for evolutionary expert systems. The proposed test process is based upon applying software engineering model for overall life cycle of test process. The proposed testing process has two major complementary components: testing and maintenance. Each plays an important role in...

Engineering Systems: an Enterprise Perspective

Engineering Systems : An Aircraft Perspective

Engineering has, in recent decades, taken on the development of systems of larger and larger scale with increasing complexity and longer product or system lifetimes. Many examples can be found in transportation, defense and power generation. Such systems, because of their size and complexity often have human or social considerations that must be accounted for, in their design. This paper will t...