{"title":"The spring model for knowledge based systems analysis: a case study involving small and medium sized enterprises","authors":"E. Whitley, A. Poulymenakou, T. Cornford","doi":"10.1109/DMESP.1991.171707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DMESP.1991.171707","url":null,"abstract":"Initial results are presented of a case study undertaken to develop a knowledge-based system to support the management of information technology in small businesses. The prerequisites for undertaking investigations in such a context are explored, and a developed method for knowledge-based systems analysis is presented. The method is flexible in allowing the consideration of the complex contextual factors in the domain, while providing guidance and control for the incremental development of understanding. The results of this analysis can subsequently support rigorous development and implementation activities.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":117336,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Developing and Managing Expert System Programs","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115196576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multimedia: a vehicle for embedding expertise","authors":"E. Garrity, J. Sipior","doi":"10.1109/DMESP.1991.171776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DMESP.1991.171776","url":null,"abstract":"The use of multimedia as a vehicle for knowledge presentation provides a full range of audio/visual features to express knowledge. However, with this opportunity, more organizational support is necessary. Thus, the management of expertise is addressed through the creation of the position of Expertise Manager. The role of this individual and related activities are presented.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":117336,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Developing and Managing Expert System Programs","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122645130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The desirability of embedding an expert system shell within a relational DBMS","authors":"J. P. Coyne","doi":"10.1109/DMESP.1991.171763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DMESP.1991.171763","url":null,"abstract":"An examination is made of the desirability of embedding a rule-based expert system shell entirely within a relational database management system (DBMS). It is argued that embedding a shell can have significant advantages beyond improved access to database tables. The advantages and disadvantages of the system are discussed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":117336,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Developing and Managing Expert System Programs","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134094000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automating the application selection process","authors":"E. Baron-Vartian, G. Baron-Vartian","doi":"10.1109/DMESP.1991.171709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DMESP.1991.171709","url":null,"abstract":"ASSESS was developed to evaluate and select the best application that requires an expert system component. ASSESS, an expert system itself, works on many levels (company, department, and application), each across many disciplines (business, organizational, and technical). Intelligently querying a user during a consultation allows many alternative potential application choices to be compared. The results are quantified, and the final recommendations are presented and interpreted along with their justifications. ASSESS provides the application selection expertise required for a systematic and consistent application assessment study.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":117336,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Developing and Managing Expert System Programs","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132968616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An integrated rule-based reduction system","authors":"K. Higa, V. Owei","doi":"10.1109/DMESP.1991.171720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DMESP.1991.171720","url":null,"abstract":"Although user-friendly and rule-based expert system shells ease the implementation of expert systems and allow for quick prototyping, their use could easily lead to ill-structured knowledge-bases. They provide no methodical way to design and maintain rule-bases (RBs). Thus, the use of these shells does not reduce the complexity of the RB design/maintenance methodology is given. The focus is on the implementation aspect of the methodology, and the RB size reduction methodology is formalized. The result is an integrated rule reduction system (IRRS) that checks for and detects incompleteness and inconsistencies in RBs and performs RB size reduction.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":117336,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Developing and Managing Expert System Programs","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125089927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distributed intelligent manufacturing scheduling system: continuing development","authors":"C.N. Lee, T. Chen","doi":"10.1109/DMESP.1991.171710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DMESP.1991.171710","url":null,"abstract":"ReDS, a distributed intelligent manufacturing scheduling system, was initially designed as a requirement-driven scheduling system and has evolved into a real-time distributed scheduling system. It is currently running at several VLSI manufacturing sites. The authors trace its development history and analyze the present system architecture for future system development. This report paper provides: (1) the development history of ReDS, (2) the distributed intelligent system approach of ReDS, and (3) the future research for the next generation of ReDS.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":117336,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Developing and Managing Expert System Programs","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114775755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and implementation of a database design aid using VP-Expert","authors":"I. Song, S. D. Strum, C. Medsker","doi":"10.1109/DMESP.1991.171764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DMESP.1991.171764","url":null,"abstract":"The design and implementation of a database modeling aid called Database Designer (DBD) using VP-Expert are discussed. The DBD expert system is intended to help novice users design a proper database by asking questions of the user and thus incrementally building a structure for an extended entity relationship (ER) diagram. The authors discuss their approach to system design for DBD and implementation issues specific to VP-Expert, such as combining backward chaining and forward chaining, procedural techniques, and transparency and visibility of VP-Expert statements. This study indicates that applying a systematic, structural approach, properly commenting the code, and logically grouping rules can make an expert system programming approach viable for designing a complex procedural design application like DBD.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":117336,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Developing and Managing Expert System Programs","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114321841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The CANASTA experience: key management and technical decisions in a hybrid expert system project","authors":"A. Rewari, M.W. Swartwout, M. S. Register","doi":"10.1109/DMESP.1991.171702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DMESP.1991.171702","url":null,"abstract":"A case study is presented of a successful intelligent system. CANASTA (the Crash Analysis Troubleshooting Assistant) is a knowledge-based system designed to assist support engineers in isolating the underlying causes of operating system crashes, whether due to hardware faults or system software bugs. CANASTA's success is largely due to a combination of project management actions and the innovative technical design and development of the system. The lessons learned from developing a large hybrid system such as CANASTA are presented.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":117336,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Developing and Managing Expert System Programs","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133031513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MEDA: a multi-expert distributed architecture as a testbed for distributed strategies","authors":"T. Martelli, J. Miralles","doi":"10.1109/DMESP.1991.171717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DMESP.1991.171717","url":null,"abstract":"The multi-expert distributed architecture (MEDA) tests predefined strategies and also builds and evaluates strategies by the automatic learning and self-organization provided by the entities emancipation process (EEP). The testing of strategies, together with the knowledge standardization mechanism provided by the association to the knowledge of additional dimensions within specific universes which grant the expansion of expert knowledge towards a common representation, allows MEDA to constitute a testbed for distributed artificialintelligence (DAI) techniques. The MEDA tool for automatic acquisition and automatic improvement of distributed solving techniques is intended to expand research in DAI toward automatic knowledge discovery.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":117336,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Developing and Managing Expert System Programs","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130271633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Partial matching in fuzzy image recognition","authors":"Rita Almeida Ribeiro, J. Baldwin","doi":"10.1109/DMESP.1991.171771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DMESP.1991.171771","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of how to build expert systems for recognizing vague or incomplete images is addressed. The focus is on the partial match and estimation of supports, per degree of similarity, of each possible option. Two methods were used: a voting model interpretation of fuzzy sets to classify the objects, and the iterative assignment algorithm to obtain the support. To test the learning capabilities of this approach, an example of upper case letters was implemented.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":117336,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Developing and Managing Expert System Programs","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133125131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}