rule-based expert system


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rule-based expert system

[¦rül ¦bāst ′ek‚spərt ‚sis·təm]
(computer science)
An expert system based on a collection of rules that a human expert would follow in dealing with a problem.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The rule-based expert system, as noted, looks for activity that mirrors modeled misuse scenarios.
Rule-based expert systems are perhaps the most common form of expert systems.
If you ever bagged groceries when you were a kid, you were behaving as though you were a rule-based expert system. In fact, I introduce the idea of rule-based expert systems to my class at MIT through a computer program called Bagger.
These limits are stored in a database for alloys and are used in the condition part of the rule-based expert system. By gradually adjusting the limits, the system will improve its ability to recognize conditions that identify risks for casting defects.
If task automation or a rule-based expert system is to combine several different pieces of sampled information and make a decision based on them, then the time relationship of these samples must be known.
These rule-based expert systems automatically and transparently migrate files between various layers in the hierarchy.
ADP CSG and its Bethesda, Md.-based strategic business unit, ADP Integrated Medical Solutions (IMS), provide insurers with a combination of rule-based expert systems and predictive programs to help them better manage both the medical and property aspects of claims and assist them in the claim settlement process.
Rule-based expert systems. The rule base of an expert system contains a set of production rules.
However, such rule-based expert systems become unwieldy when the knowledge base increases in size, and when changes are required to a knowledge base that are more subtle than simple updates[17-18].