Expert Systems Research
SciencePublished 15 April 1983
Richard O. Duda, Edward H. Shortliffe
Citations398
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score10.42
SNIP6.62
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A collateral benefit of this work is the systematization of previously unformalized knowledge in areas such as medical diagnosis and geology.
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Artificial intelligence, long a topic of basic computer science research, is now being applied to problems of scientific, technical, and commercial interest. Some consultation programs, although limited in versatility, have achieved levels of performance rivaling those of human experts. A collateral benefit of this work is the systematization of previously unformalized knowledge in areas such as medical diagnosis and geology.
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