What makes an expert?
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By 1990, total U.S. investment in research into the development and application of expert systems will reach $3.5 billion, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales is funding a Senior Research Fellowship in the areas of expert systems and artificial intelligence. Clearly, these technologies appear to be the next step after computer modeling in the logical progression of a logically progressing industry. Currently, the largest issue facing system developers is whether to develop expert systems according to architectural design or function. This debate and other related issues (such as how systems acquire knowledge, how systems should represent the knowledge they have acquired, proper user-system interface designs, testing of expert systems and how to implement the proposed expertise) are discussed briefly.
Publication Name: Accountancy
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0001-4664
Year: 1986
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Mining for knowledge
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The relationship between expert system development and knowledge acquisition is examined. Specifically, the prototype phase of systems development is considered. A prototype demonstrates the functionality of the completed system but uses only a representational part of the finished application. Prototypes are used to determine the feasibility of a completed system, and provide the means for acquiring knowledge, as opposed to system data. Knowledge acquisition is an iterative process in which the systems engineer represents the knowledge of an 'expert' according to an appropriate scheme.
Publication Name: Accountancy
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0001-4664
Year: 1987
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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An account is presented of the knowledge acquisition process in developing an expert system. The problems and process of collaboration between a knowledge engineer and an expert are discussed. A critical first step in developing an expert system is to define the domain of the system as specifically as possible. At the beginning of any expert system development project, the application of the program should be scrutinized carefully.
Publication Name: Accountancy
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0001-4664
Year: 1987
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