[comp.ai.digest] functions in expert systems

aboulang@WILMA.BBN.COM (04/14/88)

  I am interested in understanding the importance of the
  function in expert systems.  From an analysis point of view
  functions complicate expert systems quite a bit.

Check out my masters thesis:
"The Expert System PLANT/CD:
A Case Study in Applying The General Purpose Inference System Advise
to Predicting Black Cutworm Damage in Corn." This has some discussion
of the roles of function invocation in expert systems.

This is Report # UIUCDCS-R-83-1134 (July 83) which should be no
problem for you to get.


Albert Boulanger
Aboulanger@bbn.com