This paper provides a methodology, or process, that can be used to construct expert systems. The methodology is suited primarily for building troubleshooting, advisory, and diagnostic expert systems; however, it also can be useful for building other types of systems.

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a kind of diabetes that requires persistent medical care in patient self management education to prevent acute complications. One of the common and main problems in diagnosis of the diabetes is the weakness in its initial stages of the illness. This paper intends to propose an expert system in order to diagnose the risk of GDM by using FIS model. The knowl...

Management at Mary Kay Cosmetics supported development of an expert system (ES) to assist with the problems inherent with package design. Although the ES performed well and was clearly beneficial, use of the ES discontinued after a short time and the package design process returned to pre-ES practices. Within the context of this case this paper describes from a managerial perspective how and wh...