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Book reviews Artificial Intelligence Review (1987) 1. 217-219 Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Title: Introduction to Expert Systems. Publisher/Date: Addison-Wesley Author: P. Jackson Publishing Company, Inc. (London). Price: E13.95 This is one of the best introductory books comparisons which add a flavour of about expert systems (ES) to appear over the ‘philosophy’ to the book. Jackson goes on to describe some typical past few years. It makes excellent reading for everyone interested in the history of this tools for building expert systems, and field of AI as well as the current ‘state of the addresses two important classic problems. namely: knowledge acquisition and the art’. explanation of ES behaviour. He concludes Although this book is of an introductory nature, and no previous study of artificial with an excellent recapitulation of the intelligence is assumed. many chapters may whole book. and a critical survey of the strengths and weaknesses of extant be of interest to persons already familiar knowledge representation schemes and the with the subject, and those interested in particular aspects and applications of expert systems which use them. systems technology. The book gives many ideas for further studies and is accompanied by a good In the first chapter, Peter Jackson http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Artificial Intelligence Review Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
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Subject
Computer Science; Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science, general
ISSN
0269-2821
eISSN
1573-7462
DOI
10.1007/BF00142293
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Artificial Intelligence Review (1987) 1. 217-219 Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Title: Introduction to Expert Systems. Publisher/Date: Addison-Wesley Author: P. Jackson Publishing Company, Inc. (London). Price: E13.95 This is one of the best introductory books comparisons which add a flavour of about expert systems (ES) to appear over the ‘philosophy’ to the book. Jackson goes on to describe some typical past few years. It makes excellent reading for everyone interested in the history of this tools for building expert systems, and field of AI as well as the current ‘state of the addresses two important classic problems. namely: knowledge acquisition and the art’. explanation of ES behaviour. He concludes Although this book is of an introductory nature, and no previous study of artificial with an excellent recapitulation of the intelligence is assumed. many chapters may whole book. and a critical survey of the strengths and weaknesses of extant be of interest to persons already familiar knowledge representation schemes and the with the subject, and those interested in particular aspects and applications of expert systems which use them. systems technology. The book gives many ideas for further studies and is accompanied by a good In the first chapter, Peter Jackson

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Published: Jun 10, 2004

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