One of the most popular utilization of expert systems is supporting credit granting decisions. Usually, certain systems without possibilities of representing of uncertain knowledge are used. The main aim of this paper is to compare certain and uncertain expert systems supporting credit granting decisions, and stating which one is superior over another.

In this paper, all of the potential synthesis cases in distributed expert systems (DESs) are identiied based on the relationship between the original evidence sets of solutions, and the types of DESs are classiied based on the relationship of knowledge and available data of expert systems. The innovative ideas are that the relationships among the synthesis cases and the types of DESs are recogn...

This paper reviews two divergent approaches to the development and application of expert systems in manufacturing and suggests that AI researchers and system designers can more effectively contribute to manufacturing solutions by pursuing high performance design rather than reinforcing traditional technocentric assumptions.

A computer system which aids computer engineers in fault diagnosis is described. The system, called CRIB (Computer Retrieval Incidence Bank) is shown to fit into the class of pattern-directed inference systems. Emphasis is placed on the "before" and "after" phases of system generation and it is shown why, to be called an expert system, these phases are important. The forms of knowledge used in ...