The new edition of this market-leading text builds upon the blend of expert systems theory and application established in earlier editions. The first half of the book concentrates on the theoretical base of expert systems, and offers a broad overview of Artificial Intelligence and its relation to expert systems. The second half of the text focuses on application, with the introduction of the CLIPS expert systems tool, and its new object-oriented language, COOL. All chapters end with an extensive problem set designed to reinforce knowledge.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Expert Systems 2. The Representation of Knowledge 3. Methods of Inference 4. Reasoning Under Uncertainty 5. Inexact Reasoning 6. Design of Expert Systems 7. Introduction to CLIPS 8. Advanced Pattern Matching 9. Modular Design, Execution Control, and Rule Efficiency 10. Procedural Programming 11. Classes, Instances, and Message-Handlers 12. Expert System Design Examples Appendices: A. Some Useful Equivalences B. Some Elementary Quantifiers and Their Meanings C. Some Set Properties D. CLIPS Support Information E. CLIPS Commands and Functions Summary F. CLIPS BNF G. Software Resources