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Expert System Architecture

Expert system architecture typically includes a user interface, inference engine, and knowledge base. The user interface allows interaction with the user, while the inference engine reasons over expert knowledge in the form of IF-THEN rules and case-specific data. The expert knowledge is separated from general reasoning techniques through the use of expert system shells, which provide the inference engine and other core functions, allowing new problems to be addressed by providing domain knowledge without rebuilding the whole system.

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Expert System Architecture

Expert system architecture typically includes a user interface, inference engine, and knowledge base. The user interface allows interaction with the user, while the inference engine reasons over expert knowledge in the form of IF-THEN rules and case-specific data. The expert knowledge is separated from general reasoning techniques through the use of expert system shells, which provide the inference engine and other core functions, allowing new problems to be addressed by providing domain knowledge without rebuilding the whole system.

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Expert System Architecture

Figure-1 shows the most important modules that make up a rule-based expert system.
The user interacts with the system through a user interface which may use menus,
natural language or any other style of interaction). Then an inference engine is used to
reason with both the expert knowledge (extracted from our friendly expert) and data
specific to the particular problem being solved. The expert knowledge will typically
be in the form of a set of IF-THEN rules. The case specific data includes both data
provided by the user and partial conclusions (along with certainty measures) based on
this data. In a simple forward chaining rule-based system the case specific data will be
the elements in working memory.

Figure-1

Almost all expert systems also have an explanation subsystem, which allows the
program to explain its reasoning to the user. Some systems also have a knowledge
base editor which help the expert or knowledge engineer to easily update and check
the knowledge base.

One important feature of expert systems is the way they (usually) separate domain
specific knowledge from more general purpose reasoning and representation
techniques. The general purpose bit (in the dotted box in the figure) is referred to as
an expert system shell. As we see in the figure, the shell will provide the inference
engine (and knowledge representation scheme), a user interface, an explanation
system and sometimes a knowledge base editor. Given a new kind of problem to solve
(say, car design), we can usually find a shell that provides the right sort of support for
that problem, so all we need to do is provide the expert knowledge. There are
numerous commercial expert system shells, each one appropriate for a slightly
different range of problems. (Expert systems work in industry includes both writing
expert system shells and writing expert systems using shells.) Using shells to write
expert systems generally greatly reduces the cost and time of development (compared
with writing the expert system from scratch).

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