Operational Expert System Applications in Canada (eBook)

Rajjan Shinghal, Ching Y. Suen (Herausgeber)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
192 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4832-9570-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is part of a new series on operational expert systems worldwide. Expert systems are now widely used in different parts of the world for various applications. The past four years have witnessed a steady growth in the development and deployment of expert systems in Canada. Research in this field has also gained considerable momentum during the past few years. However, the field of expert systems is still young in Canada. This book contains 13 chapters contributed by 31 experts from both universities and industries across Canada covering a wide range of applications related to electric power and circuit boards, health and medicine, the legal field, transportation and decision making.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Operational Expert System Applications in Canada 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
Preface 8
Chapter 1. Diagnostic and Administrative Expert Systems at Bell Canada Network Services 10
GENERAL BACKGROUND 10
BELL NETWORK SERVICES PROJECT 11
DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 12
IMPLEMENTATION 16
CONCLUSION 20
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 20
Chapter 2. A Knowledge-Based System for Configuration of Local Area Networks 21
INTRODUCTION 21
SYSTEM FUNCTIONALITY 22
SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE 24
MAINTENANCE TOOLS 26
IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY 27
DEPLOYMENT ISSUES 28
BENEFIT ANALYSIS 29
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 30
BIBLIOGRAPHY 30
Chapter 3. The TRANSEPT Family of Expert Systems for the Preliminary Design of Power Networks 31
USER EVALUATION OF AN EXPERT SYSTEM 32
INTEGRATED EXPERT SYSTEMS 34
POWER TRANSMISSION CAPABILITY AS A FUNCTION OF VOLTAGE AND DISTANCE 39
CONCLUSIONS 40
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 40
REFERENCES 40
Chapter 4. Knowledge-Based and Object-Oriented Approaches to Process Planning at Northern Telecom 41
PREVIOUS WORK DEVELOPED IN PROCESS PLANNING SYSTEMS 41
MANUFACTURING PROCESSES ASSOCIATED WITH THE PRODUCTION OF PCBs 42
ARCHITECTURE OF CPMAPS II 45
CPMAPS II PLANNING MODULES 45
CONCLUSIONS 52
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 52
REFERENCES 53
Chapter 5. Health Expert Goes On-line 54
INTRODUCTION 54
CANCER, ME?? 55
IMPLEMENTATION 57
RESULTS 62
CONCLUSIONS 63
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 64
REFERENCES 64
Chapter 6. The Nervous Shock Advisor: A Legal Expert System in Case-Based Law 65
DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 65
IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS 73
REFERENCES 75
APPENDIX: SAMPLE CONSULTATION 75
Chapter 7. Expert System for Proposed Corporate Name Verification 81
DEACON DEVELOPMENT 81
KNOWLEDGE BASE STRUCTURE AND CONTROL 84
TESTING AND IMPLEMENTATION 84
DEACON'S PERFORMANCE 85
REFERENCES 86
APPENDIX: CONSULTING DEACON 86
Chapter 8. HIDES: The Highway Intersection Design Expert System 89
OBJECTIVES OF THE HIDES PROJECT 89
PROJECT CONSTRAINTS 90
DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 90
IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS 98
A SAMPLE SESSION 99
SUMMARY 107
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 107
REFERENCES 107
NOTES 107
Chapter 9. A Mix of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering 109
SELECTION OF A PROBLEM TO SOLVE 109
DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEM DOMAIN 110
FORMATION OF A DEVELOPMENT TEAM 112
SKETCH OF A PROBLEM SOLUTION 112
REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS 113
KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION 114
SOFTWARE DESIGN—INCLUDING KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION 117
IMPLEMENTATION 119
VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION 120
VARMINT'S FUTURE 121
SUMMARY OF IDEAS FOR EXPERT SYSTEMS DEVELOPERS 121
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 122
REFERENCES 122
Chapter 10. AMETHYST: A Multi-Expert Resource System for Public Sector Compensation and Benefits Personnel 123
INTRODUCTION 123
DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 125
IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS 132
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 134
REFERENCES 134
NOTES 134
APPENDIX: SAMPLE SESSION WITH THE AMETHYST EXPERT SYSTEM 135
Chapter 11. STATEX: An Expert Assistant For Statistical Analysis 141
INTRODUCTION 141
DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 141
IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS 155
REFERENCES 156
APPENDIX: SAMPLE SESSION 156
Chapter 12. Model-Based Automotive Diagnosis Using the Echidna Constraint Reasoning System 163
OVERVIEW OF THE ENGINE DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM 164
ECHIDNA CONSTRAINT REASONING SYSTEM 166
THE ENGINE MODEL 169
REVIEW OF PREVIOUS WORK 174
CONCLUSION 176
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 177
REFERENCES 177
NOTES 178
Chapter 13. Fuzzy Logic-Based Expert Systems for Operations Management 179
DEVELOPMENT 179
AAR 182
IMPLEMENTATION 185
CONCLUSIONS 188
REFERENCES 189
APPENDIX: MENU OF USING THE MODIFIED FLAR SYSTEMS 190
Author Index 193

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.6.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
• ISBN-10: 1-4832-9570-2 / 1483295702
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4832-9570-1 / 9781483295701