Intelligent machines respond to external environments on the basis of decisions that are made by sensing the changes in the environment and analyzing the obtained information. This study focuses on the construction of a knowledge base which enables decision making with that information. Approximately 70% of all errors that occur in machine tools are caused by thermal errors. In order to proacti...

An Intelligent Information System (IIS) is viewed as composed of a unified knowledge base, database, and model base. This allows an IIS to provide responses to user queries regardless of whether the query process involves a data retrieval, an inference, a computational method, a problem solving module, or some combination of these. NED-2 is a full-featured intelligent information system for the...

This paper describes our experiences from combining workflow management with object technology and expert systems technology. This approach constitutes a powerful integration of business processes, business objects and knowledge bases applicable to a wide range of problem domains. Our experiences with applying this combination in several real world systems show that it can add a new level of su...

In 1987, Dr. Bruce Porter began work at the University of Texas at Austin on the Botany Knowledge Base Project. The goal of the project is to develop a largescale multi-functional knowledge base in the area of Botany. This Botany Knowledge Base (BKB) is used to support research projects in question answering, automated modeling, and intelligent tutoring. Due to the size and complexity of the BK...

The aim of this paper is to present an intelligent system for the diagnosis of some children's diseases to help fresh and inexperienced healthcare graduates. This system is based on clinical database, knowledge base and medical image processing. This intelligent system provides a graphical user interface which allows the user to choose among a number of symptoms and input a medical diagnostic i...

Complex matrix model of data and knowledge representation is proposed for solution of a road-climatic zoning of the territories problem using an intelligent system. This model consists of: 1) an extended matrix model, which includes extended description and distinguishing matrices (the extension is realized by the way of including of additional columns into the description matrix) for the terri...

paper presents an intelligent decision support system (DSS) for facilitating the adoption of the most appropriate multicriteria analysis (MA) method in solving the information systems (IS) project evaluation and selection problem. A knowledge base consisting of IF-THEN production rules is developed for assisting with a systematic adoption of the most appropriate MA method through considering th...

This paper describes an intelligent decision support system (IDSS) dedicated to coordinated management of urban infrastructures (SIGIU). This system identifies the data and related treatments common to several municipal activities and defines the requirements and functionalities of the computer tools developed to improve the delivery, performance and coordination of municipal services to the po...

The management of modern telecommunications networks must satisfy ever-increasing operational demands. We propose a study for the improvement of intelligent administration techniques in telecommunications networks. This task is achieved by integrating knowledge base of expert system within the management information used to manage a network. For this purpose, an extension of OSI management fram...