Expert System Development Tools And Applications

Expert System techniques have gained wide acceptance in many areas. However, the application of expert system has been hindered by poor availability of suitable tools. In consideration of the characteristics of expert system develop tools and the requirement of practical applications, we designed and implemented a windows-based model (UESDM) as expert system development tool.Developed by OOPL, It encapsulates several components of expert system,such as knowledge base and Inference Engine. It provides multiple knowledge representations including Production Rule and Object Oriented, and knowledge acquisition. Multiple inference methods and inference strategies and explanation mechanism are properly organized under the model.As expert system develop tool, knowledge of different areas can be represented in UESDM by its good interfaces of knowledge representation. It is proved that the model can significantly reduce the time required to produce expert system.