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An Overview of Expert Systems

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Expert Systems in Engineering Applications

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Artificial Intelligence and its subfield Expert Systems have reached a level of maturity, particularly in recent years, and have evolved to the point that a Knowledge-Based Expert System may reach a level of performance comparable to that of a human expert in specialized problem domains like, Computer Systems, Computing, Education, Engineering, Knowledge Engineering, Geology, Medicine and Science. An Expert System is a high performance problem solving (software) computer program, capable of simulating human expertise in a narrow domain.

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Tzafestas, S.G., Kokkinaki, A.I., Valavanis, K.P. (1993). An Overview of Expert Systems. In: Tzafestas, S. (eds) Expert Systems in Engineering Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84048-7_1

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