An approach to decision making that combines multi-attribute decision making techniques with expert systems is described. In this approach, knowledge about a particular decision making problem is represented in the form of tree-structured criteria and decision rules. Decision making is supported by an expert system shell. This chapter focuses on the part of the shell that supports evaluation, e...

Expert systems use explicitly coded knowledge (often in the form of IF·THEN rules) to solve problems for which a (numerical) algorithmic solution is not appropriate. There are many specialized expert system development environments available. T AXSY is an expert system shell written completely in SAS. It consists of a set of SAS programs which, with the addition of datasets with rules and code,...

An integrated Expert Geographical Information System (EXGIS) is presented and applied for the evaluation of the suitability of soil and climatic conditions of in area of southern Greece, for five crops. EXGIS is an integration of an Expert System shell, designed for the manipulation of knowledge concerning soil suitability for agricultural uses, with the commercial GIS package PC ARC/INFO. The ...

A decision making approach which combines multi-attribute decision making techniques with expert systems is described in the paper. In this approach, knowledge about a particular decision making problem is represented in the form of tree-structured criteria and decision rules. Decision making is supported by an expert system shell. In the paper, the discussion is mainly concentrated on the part...

The development of expert system for treatment of Diabetes disease by using natural methods is new information technology derived from Artificial Intelligent research using ESTA (Expert System Text Animation) System. The proposed expert system contains knowledge about various methods of natural treatment methods (Massage, Herbal/Proper Nutrition, Acupuncture, Gems) for Diabetes diseases of Huma...

This paper describes the design and development of an expert system for tourist information center. The expert system was built to recommend a suitable travel schedule that satisfies user input constraints such as time period, budget and preferences. Tourist center officers need to answer similar set of queries in their day-to-day work which could be replaced by an intelligent tourist advisor s...

Selecting a suitable method and knowledge engineering tool for a rule-based problem may be influenced by the fact that an expert system shell can be expensive and, contrary to database systems, may not be part of the installed computing environment. We show how to use a database (ORACLE) to implement the functionality of an expert system shell by a simple rule language which is automatically tr...

The need for effective tutoring and training is mounting, especially in industry and engineering fields, which demand the learning of complex tasks and knowledge. Intelligent tutoring systems are being employed for this purpose, thus creating a need for cost-effective means of developing tutoring systems. We discuss a novel approach to developing an Intelligent Tutoring System shell that can ge...

The environment which makes possible rule-based expert system aided network management is described. One of the most important objectives for us is to integrate the management rules into the managed object itself, as an alternative to a solution where those rules were statically linked to the expert system shell.