T4. Expert System Flashcards
What is an Expert System?
Expert systems are also known as knowledge-based systems and are applications of Artificial Intelligence. They provide access to human expertise via a computer system in a specific knowledge domain.
What is the User Interface in an Expert System?
The User Interface allows users to communicate with the outside world.
What is the Inference Engine in an Expert System?
The Inference Engine allows the user to query and search the knowledge base.
What is the Knowledge Base in an Expert System?
The Knowledge Base contains facts and rules provided by the human expert.
What is the difference between Knowledge and Inference?
The Knowledge Base holds knowledge about the domain, consisting of rules, facts, and heuristic knowledge. The Inference Engine allows users to query the knowledge base and draw conclusions based on stored rules.
What is a Shell in the context of Expert Systems?
A Shell is the software development environment for creating an expert system, containing components like the knowledge base and user interface.
What is a Heuristic?
Heuristic refers to rules of thumb derived from human experience, requiring judgment rather than pure logic.
What is Fuzzy Logic?
Fuzzy Logic uses probabilities to make decisions with incomplete data, allowing computers to mimic human reasoning.
What is a Knowledge Engineer?
A Knowledge Engineer is the technical expert who gathers information for the knowledge base from subject experts and structures it into the database.
