Publisher's Synopsis
This volume is a concise guide to practical methods for initiating, designing, building, managing and demonstrating commercial expert systems. It reviews the knowledge representation, programming and management techniques commonly used to implement expert systems, and describes the intellectual organizational, financial and managerial issues that knowledge engineers must deal with. Among the topics covered are: forecasting costs; establishing project metrics and writing specifications; preparing for system demonstrations; selecting system engineers; and solving common difficulties in design and implementation.
