The art of artificial intelligence I: Themes and case studies of knowledge engineering

The knowledge engineer practices the art of bringing the principles and tools of AI research to bear on difficult applications problems requiring experts ' knowledge for their solution. The technical issues of acquiring this knowledge, representing it, and using it appropriately to construct and explain lines-of-reasoning, are important problems in the design of knowledge-based systems. Various systems that have achieved expert level performance in scientific and medical inference illuminate the art of knowledg