Expert seeking is an activity in which one seeks expertise from someone else in order to solve certain problems. When one realizes he or she requires helps to accomplish tasks that need new skills and knowledge, the process of expert seeking is initiated. This process involves many elements including formulating goals and strategies, identifying and selecting experts, and repeating the steps wh...

Turbine Engine Diagnostics (TED) is a diagnostic expert system to aid the Ml Abrams tank mechanic find and fix problems in the AGT-1500 turbine engine. TED was designed to provide the apprentice mechanic the’ability to diagnose and repair the turbine engine like an expert mechanic. The expert system was designed and built by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory ,I_. \ ~HKLJ and the U.S. Army Ordna...

The building damage assessment is a very important task after a strong earthquake. For taking decisions about the building habitability and reparability it is necessary evaluate the building damage, but the expert professionals are insufficient, and therefore voluntary non-experts professionals must be including in the task. This personnel type displays the tendency to aggravate or to underesti...

To meet the needs of remote monitoring of greenhouse environment parameters, combined with embedded technology and 3G communication technology, a scheme of greenhouse environment parameter information real-time monitoring and control based on the Android phone platform is proposed in this paper. The paper gives the system's overall design, describes the design of each module, writes greenhouse ...

Models ofconsensus are used in the validation process to develop a basis for system performance. This paper develops two analytic models ofconsensus that can be useful in the validation process. The first model employs the binomial model to study the probability that the consensus judgment is correct or incorrect. This problem is critical for the validation of expert systems, since the model le...

Although the explanation capability of expert systems is usually listed as one of the distinguishing characteristics of these systems, the explanation facilities of most existing systems are quite primitive. Computer generated explanations are typically produced from canned text or by diwct translation of the knowledge structures. Explanations produced in this manner bear little resemblance to ...

Expert system projects arc often based on collaboration with a single domain expert. This leads to difficulties in judging the suit,abilit,it,y of the chosen task and in acquiring the detailed knowledge required to carry out the task This anecdotal article considers some of the advantages of using a diverse collection

A pioneer in commercializing expert system technology, Teknowledge released two so-called "expert system shells" in mid-1984. It soon became apparent that product customers were using these tools in ways that differed from what the developers envisioned. Even internal to Teknowledge, there was considerably controversy over the value of these tools. The debate centered on the tradeoffs between t...