[comp.ai] PS application domains?

jeclarke@swift.cs.tcd.ie (04/23/91)

	I'm looking for a few references here:

	The drawbacks of using a production system based expert system
	are well documented - the gist of it being that this approach
	is all right for developing a prototype, but lots of problems
	arise in trying to scale this up to a full system.

	However, all the references are to production systems that
	HAVE worked, and generally worked well (though only in certain
	domains).

	So, does anyone know of any real TURKEYS, ones that just went
	belly-up and never got off the ground. What I'm interested in
	is finding the areas that the production system approach should
	NOT be applied to - this will probably be such things as domains
	with uncertain data, domains with unreliable data, but there must
	be others.

	Thanks in advance.

	John.