This paper provides a methodology, or process, that can be used to construct expert systems. The methodology is suited primarily for building troubleshooting, advisory, and diagnostic expert systems; however, it also can be useful for building other types of systems.

Management at Mary Kay Cosmetics supported development of an expert system (ES) to assist with the problems inherent with package design. Although the ES performed well and was clearly beneficial, use of the ES discontinued after a short time and the package design process returned to pre-ES practices. Within the context of this case this paper describes from a managerial perspective how and wh...

the science parks have important role in development of technology and are able to make economic growth of the countries. the purpose of this paper is the presentation of a fuzzy expert system (fis) as intelligent systems to evaluate the science and technology parks. one of the problems for evaluating science and technology parks is to have the high number of criteria and science parks which ah...