Applications and Innovations in Expert Systems VI

1. Front Matter

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2. Application Keynote Address

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Expert Systems in the Knowledge Management Era

      • Robert M. Taylor

      Pages 3-8

3. Best Refereed Application Paper

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   2. A Web Based CBR System for HVAC Sales Support

      • Dan Gardingen, Ian Watson

      Pages 11-23

4. Session 1

   1. Front Matter

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   2. PCONFIG

      • Paul J. P. Slater

      Pages 27-41

   3. Cakes — Getting the Right Balance

      • Linda S. Young, Philip R. Davies, Stanley P. Cauvain

      Pages 42-55

   4. Development of a Rule-based Expert System for the Selection of Rapid Prototyping Processes

      • Y. F. Wang, R. L. Roome, R. Benhadj-Djilali

      Pages 56-68

   5. ACCELERE: a Case-Based Design Assistant for Closed Cell Rubber Industry

      • Olivier Herbeaux, Alain Mille

      Pages 69-82

5. Session 2

   1. Front Matter

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   2. A Single-Agent Architecture Supports Decision Making

      • John Debenham

      Pages 85-98

   3. Fuzzy Rule-based Expert System for Real-Time Train Traffic Control

      • Alexander Fay, Eckehard Schnieder

      Pages 99-111

   4. Design Engineering — A need to rethink the solution using KBE

      • Craig B. Chapman, Martyn Pinfold

      Pages 112-131

   5. A Case-Based Reasoning Tool For Vibration Analysis

      • Giles Oatley, John Tait, John MacIntyre

      Pages 132-146

6. Session 3

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Internet-based Decision Support for Evidence-based Medicine

      • Jon Simpson, John Kingston, Neil Molony

      Pages 149-164

   3. A Temporal Protocol Model for Chronic Disease Management in the PRODIGY Project

      • R. C. Sugden

      Pages 165-173

   4. Modelling the Veterinary Diagnostic Process Using Rules and Cases

      • Rosemary Gilligan, Venky Shankararaman, Pam Hinton, Stephen May

      Pages 174-183

   5. Hascheck - The Croatian Academic Spelling Checker

      • Sandor Dembitz, Petar Knezevic, Mladen Sokele

      Pages 184-197

R. MILNE Intelligent Applications Ltd The papers in this volume are the Application Papers presented at ES98, the Eighteenth International Conference of the British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Expert Systems. This year has been yet another "applications" success for the conference with this volume containing seventeen papers describing either deployed applications or emerging applications. All these documented case studies provide clear evidence of the success of AI technology in solving real business problems. Six of these papers were nominated for the Best Application Award during the review process. These nominations were then reviewed by the members of the Programme Committee to select the winning paper. The papers in the volume were subject to refereeing by at least two referees. All papers which were controversial for some reason were discussed in depth by the Application Programme Committee. Ten referees from the industrial and commercial sector and nine referees from the academic sector assisted me in reviewing the papers. The review form asked the referee to score the papers according to a number of dimensions, to rate it overall, and to offer critical comments to me, and to the authors. It also asks the referee to score their expertise in the area of each paper they review. Only reviews from 'expert' referees are used.

• artificial intelligence
• case-based reasoning
• control
• data mining
• expert system
• fuzzy
• knowledge
• knowledge base
• knowledge management
• modeling
• problem solving

• Intelligent Applications Ltd., Livingston, W. Lothian, Scotland

  Robert W. Milne

• Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

  Ann L. Macintosh

• Faculty of Technology, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

  Max Bramer

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