Certain theoretical and methodological problems of designing real-time dynamical expert systems, which belong to the class of the most complex integrated expert systems, are discussed. Primary attention is given to the problems of designing subsystems for modeling the external environment in the case where the environment is represented by complex engineering systems. A specific approach to des...

The application of knowledge engineering techniques to expert and consultative systems has tended to out-run the development of a conceptual basis for such applications. This paper presents some conceptual analysis, within the domain of knowledge engineering, of expertise, rule-following and, in particular, of competence, which is perhaps the crucial concept in the area. Examples are given from...

The importance of Expert Systems (ES) as a powerful business tool has become widely recognized in industry. That in turn has led to a major increase in ES development activities and has exacerbated the need to manage these activities for more efficient use of development resources. An important component for effectively managing ES development is an Expert System Development Life Cycle (ESDLC)....

In this paper the preconditions for the the development of multifunctional diagnostic expert system are given.

We discuss and illustrate how Semantic Web technologies can support information integration and create semantic mashups. An intelligent expert system for location planning is presented to show the efficiency of our method. Through the ontology of location planning, the expert system allows the integration of heterogeneous online location information. An integrated knowledge process is developed...

Ordinal Conditional Functions (OCFs) are one of the predominant frameworks to define belief change operators. In his original paper Spohn defines OCFs as functions from the set of worlds to the set of ordinals. But in subsequent paper by Spohn and others, OCFs are just used as functions from the set of worlds to natural numbers (plus eventually +∞). The use of transfinite ordinals in this frame...

In this paper, the implementation of a veterinary expert system which allows for remote access through a mobile phone is examined. The background to the problem, including the circumstances the system would be used in, is discussed and the di erent tools available to assist in developing an expert system are examined. The process of acquiring the knowledge from experts and other locations for t...

This paper discusses recent attempts to codify knowledge through the development of expert systems in several different contexts. This paper argues that in the context of expert systems there is some knowledge that can be codified (turned into an expert system essentially in its entirety), some for which this is partly possible, and some for which it is basically impossible given the state of t...

Development of the integrated expert systems with the task-oriented methodology and the problems of the intellectualization of AT-TECHNOLOGY workbench are reviewed. Intelligent planning methods applied for tutoring IES development processes are described with usage of the intelligent planner, reusable components, typical design procedures, and another intelligent program environment components....

Genetic algorithms have been applied to a very wide range of practical problems, often with valuable results. This paper surveys just a few examples, to illustrate the diversity of approaches and to point to some of the considerations that have proved important in making applications successful. Because GAs provide a fairly comprehensible way to address a wide range of diicult engineering and o...