A brief introduction to expert systems

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Abstract

Recent interest in the topic of expert systems has been enormous, and continues to grow. This allegedly new tool has been proposed for implementation in an incredibly diverse array of problems, including a host of problem types that are (or should be) of interest to the operations researcher. In this tutorial, we present a very brief overview of expert systems. In particular, we examine its relationship and usefulness to the operations research profession.

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James P. Ignizio is Professor and Chairman of Industrial Engineering at the University of Houston. Prior to joining the University of Houston in 1986, Dr Ignizio taught for 12 years at Pennsylvania State University. He received a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. His teaching and research interests center about the applications of operations research, including the methods of heuristic programming, expert systems, neural networks and multiple objective optimization. Dr Ignizio is the author of five textbooks, several monographs and numerous journal articles.

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