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Frontiers of Expert Systems

Reasoning with Limited Knowledge

Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 552)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Knowledge-Based Systems

    • Chilukuri Krishna Mohan
    Pages 1-18
  3. Practical Reasoning

    • Chilukuri Krishna Mohan
    Pages 19-40
  4. Uncertainty

    • Chilukuri Krishna Mohan
    Pages 41-97
  5. Rule Based Programming

    • Chilukuri Krishna Mohan
    Pages 99-131
  6. Evolving Classifiers

    • Chilukuri Krishna Mohan
    Pages 133-156
  7. Connectionist Systems

    • Chilukuri Krishna Mohan
    Pages 157-175
  8. Case Based Reasoning Systems

    • Chilukuri Krishna Mohan
    Pages 177-199
  9. Knowledge Acquisition

    • Chilukuri Krishna Mohan
    Pages 201-236
  10. Data Mining

    • Chilukuri Krishna Mohan
    Pages 237-258
  11. Distributed Experts

    • Chilukuri Krishna Mohan
    Pages 259-295
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 297-303

About this book

The development of modern knowledge-based systems, for applications ranging from medicine to finance, necessitates going well beyond traditional rule-based programming. Frontiers of Expert Systems: Reasoning with Limited Knowledge attempts to satisfy such a need, introducing exciting and recent advances at the frontiers of the field of expert systems.
Beginning with the central topics of logic, uncertainty and rule-based reasoning, each chapter in the book presents a different perspective on how we may solve problems that arise due to limitations in the knowledge of an expert system's reasoner.
Successive chapters address (i) the fundamentals of knowledge-based systems, (ii) formal inference, and reasoning about models of a changing and partially known world, (iii) uncertainty and probabilistic methods, (iv) the expression of knowledge in rule-based systems, (v) evolving representations of knowledge as a system interacts with the environment, (vi) applying connectionist learning algorithms to improve on knowledge acquired from experts, (vii) reasoning with cases organized in indexed hierarchies, (viii) the process of acquiring and inductively learning knowledge, (ix) extraction of knowledge nuggets from very large data sets, and (x) interactions between multiple specialized reasoners with specialized knowledge bases.
Each chapter takes the reader on a journey from elementary concepts to topics of active research, providing a concise description of several topics within and related to the field of expert systems, with pointers to practical applications and other relevant literature.
Frontiers of Expert Systems: Reasoning with Limited Knowledge is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate-level course, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Syracuse University, USA

    Chilukuri Krishna Mohan

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