Principles Of Expert Systems

Computing Methodologies -- Artificial Intelligence.

The new edition of this market-leading text builds upon the blend of expert systems theory and application established in earlier editions.

Expert system technology is receiving increasing popularity and acceptance in the engineering community. This is due to the fact that there actually exists a close match between the capabilities of the current generation expert systems and the requirements of engineering practice. Prepared by a distinguished team of experts, this book provides a balanced state-of-the-art presentation of the design principles of engineering expert systems, and a representative picture of their capabilities to assist efficiently the design, diagnosis and operation of complex industrial plants. Among the application areas covered are the following: hardware synthesis, industrial plant layout design, fault diagnosis, process control, image analysis, computer communication, electric power systems, intelligent control, robotics, and manufacturing systems. The book is appropriate for the researcher and the professional. The researcher can save considerable time in searching the scattered technical information on engineering expert systems. The professional can have readily available a rich set of guidelines and techniques that are applicable to a wide class of engineering domains.

The material in this book was used in both undergraduate and graduate courses in expert systems. The introduction and overview contains sufficient information to provide the mature student with the background to select tools for class projects. This is followed by an overview of symbolic programming languages and introduction to object-oriented programming, then continues with the concepts and language structures used in designing knowledge sources composed of knowledge bases and inference engines.