Expert Systems: WHY

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• Components
• User Interface
• Inference engine
• Knowledge Base

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CFs Fuzzy Logic (cf boolean logic)
Prospector
Examples
Narrow Domain
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• Shell

Forward rules backward rules
Expert Systems WHY?
F If. Then conclusion.. (0.75)
B conclusion (75)IF AND .. AND ..
In what way do these help?
NB declarative languages
Why ?
Justification features
How ?
Knowledge engineer Expert
Problems?
Philosophical Legal Ethical issues