An evaluation of expert system development tools

Expert Systems - Tập 3 Số 3 - Trang 166-183 - 1986
Mark H. Richer1,2
1Knowledge Systems Laboratory Computer Science Department Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
2Mark H. Richer: : Mark H. Richer is a Scientific Programmer with the Knowledge Systems Laboratory of the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. His main responsibility is to contribute to the design, implementation, evaluation and maintenance of software for the Guidon project, including the Neomycin medical diagnosis system and the Guidon-2 instructional programs. He has received the MS in computer science and the MA in interactive educational technology, both from Stanford University. He has also earned the B.A. in Psychology from SUNY Binghamton and a California teaching credential from SF State University. Prior to graduate work at Stanford, Richer coordinated a microcomputer lab at a public elementary school. His main interests include knowledge-based instructional systems and human—computer interaction. Richer is a member of the IEEE, ACM, SigChi, and AAAI.

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Abstract: There is a significant amount of interest in expert systems and the software tools that are available for developing these systems. Most tools that are developed at university research labs are described in some detail in books, articles, or technical reports. However, there is a need for objective information on commercial software tools for building expert systems. These tools can be used for research, prototyping and developing end‐user applications. Necessarily we must establish a set of criteria which can be used to evaluate these tools. These criteria include an evaluation of the basic features, the development environment, what a tool can be used for, how easy it is to learn and use, how much it costs, and how it is supported. In the first part of this paper, a set of criteria is described for evaluating expert system software tools. In the second part, these criteria are used to evaluate several currently available commercial tools.

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