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