This paper discusses an application of practical expert system development in the finance industry. In particular, it describes the development of an expert system for credit card application assessment. In the problem domain of credit assessment, the method of ’credit scoring’ has been widely used, but this system uses a ’profiling’ method to simulate more closely the human process of decision...

Automatic assessment of subjective characteristics of customers like politeness, satisfaction or competence could provide services companies with information needful for improving service quality. In this work, we construct a regression model for politeness estimation of customers, which uses a) set of linguistic indicators and b) manual estimations of expert(s). We apply the suggested methodol...

The purpose of the study is to determine opinions graduate students from social studies education regarding qualitative research method. was conducted in accordance with phenomenological design, one designs. sample group composed 25 postgraduate including 11 females and 14 males studying Department Social Studies Education Division Turkish Language Sciences Educational Institute, Firat Universi...

This study focuses on the process of developing a learning environment that uses tablets and Quick Response (QR) codes to enhance participants’ English language vocabulary knowledge. The author employed the concurrent triangulation strategy, a mixed research design. The study was conducted at a private school in Izmir, Turkey during the 2012-2013 academic year. The study sample was determined u...

The purpose of this article is to summarize the state-of-the-art of the expert systems research field. First, we introduce the basic notion of knowledge, and specifically of shallow knowledge, and deep knowledge. The first section of the document summarizes the history of the field. We analyze the differences between the first generation of expert systems, based primarily upon rulebased and fra...

Most expert system designers suffer from knowledge acquisition complications. Expert system shells contain facilities that can simplify knowledge acquisition to make domain experts themselves responsible for knowledge structuring and encoding. The aim of this research is to develop an Arabic Expert System Shell (AESS) for diagnosing diseases based on natural language. The suggested AESS mainly ...

The use of cartographic representations in 3D views accumulates the advantages of technological advances, but faces a lack of cartographic knowledge needed to build these representations. Consequences include misconceptions in map design that can inhibit or even impair the understanding of the features represented and their spatial relations. A common task in 3D map-use is virtual navigation su...

the present study aims to examine how to create alternative methodology in social sciences by using qualitative approach of grounded theory and implementing focus group workshops and performing semi-structured interviews with expert professors in social science methodology. the method of the present research is qualitative approach of grounded theory; focus group workshops were held and semi-st...

background: personal information management (pim) refers to the tools and activities to save and retrieve personal information for future uses. this study examined the pim activities of faculty members of iran university of medical sciences (iums) regarding their preferred pim tools and four aspects of acquiring, organizing, storing and retrieving personal information.   methods : the qualitati...

Meta-synthesis system approach (MSA) is proposed to tackle with open complex giant systems (OCGS) problems by Chinese system scientists since the late 1980s. Its essential idea can be simplified as from confident qualitative hypothesis to vigorous quantitative validation. To apply this approach, the synthesis of human expert opinions and emergent knowing, machines’ powerful computing capacity a...