Title :
A quantitative model-based expert system for LAN development
Author_Institution :
General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY, USA
Abstract :
A quantitative model-based expert system, or QMB for short, is described. A QMB is a rule-based system coupled to an analytic model. The QMBs provide another level of refinement over rule-based systems by giving quantitative answers to problems. He discusses the difficulties associated with the design of a shell for a QMB and proposes the use of a semishell, which assists the knowledge engineers in writing the logic, uncertainty and inference modules of the QMB expert system program. The design and coding of the modules that deal with the numerical data is left to the knowledge engineer. The operation of a QMB having 43 rules is described. A software architecture is presented that can dynamically change its operation. The purpose of the architecture is to produce an expert system that can think more like human beings
Keywords :
CAD; expert systems; local area networks; telecommunications computing; LAN development; inference; logic; quantitative model-based expert system; shell; software architecture; uncertainty; Coupled mode analysis; Data engineering; Design engineering; Expert systems; Knowledge based systems; Knowledge engineering; Local area networks; Logic design; Uncertainty; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Computers and Communications, 1988. Conference Proceedings., Seventh Annual International Phoenix Conference on
Conference_Location :
Scottsdale, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-0830-7
DOI :
10.1109/PCCC.1988.10116
