Expert Systems, the State-of-the-Art

Abstract

Expert systems technology emerged from the collaboration of AI research and computer technology. Both are young; and their offspring is new, still in the early stages of its life cycle, and developing very fast. This makes any statement on the state-of-the-art temporary at best. The main factors expected to contribute to further developments in expert systems technology, most of which being bottlenecks currently, are: obviously: aspects of hardware and software; certainly: the developments in techniques for knowledge acquisition and representation; from the point of view of acceptance of the technology: the devel opment and implementation methodology; techniques and methodologies for the validation of expert systems; proven feasibility in application areas.