Mycin: a rule-based computer program for advising physicians regarding antimicrobial therapy selection.
Am: an artificial intelligence approach to discovery in mathematics as heuristic search.
Am: an artificial intelligence approach to discovery in mathematics as heuristic search.
Automatic construction of algorithms and data structures using a knowledge base of programming rules.
Problem-Solving Methods in Artificial Intelligence
Problem-Solving Methods in Artificial Intelligence
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Many of the recent expert rule-based systems [Dendral, Mycin, AM, Pecos] have architectures that differ significantly from the simple domain-independent architectures of "pure" production systems. The purpose of this paper is to explore, somewhat more systematically than has been done before, the various ways in which the simplicity constraints can be relaxed, and the benefits of doing so. The most significant benefits arise from three sources: (i) the grain size of a typical rule can be increased until it captures a unit of advice which is meaningful in that system's task domain, (ii) the interpreter can become accessible to the rules and thus become dynamically modifiable, and (iii) meaningful permanent Knowledge can be stored in data memories, not just within productions. Although there are costs associated with relaxing the simplicity constraints, for many task domains the benefits outweigh the costs.