Expert System Prototype Developments For Nasa-Ksc Business And Engineering Applications

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, and in particular expert systems - a subset of AI which shows the strongest applicability to a wide variety of environments, has recently emerged from the realm of basic research into that of real-world applications. To further these advances, NASA-Kennedy Space Center (KSC) provided funding and other critical resources to the University of Central Florida (UCF) in support of instruction of expert systems technology. During the Fall 1987 semester, UCF\u27s Colleges of Business and Engineering concurrently offered courses in response to the increased interest in expert system applications and to satisfy the intent of this grant. This paper describes the prototype expert systems which evolved from this sponsorship and the development methods used