Expert Systems and the "Myth" of Symbolic Reasoning

  • Authors:
  • Jon Doyle

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on artificial intelligence and software engineering
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

Elements of the artificial intelligence approach to expert systems offer great productivity advantages over traditional approaches to application systems development, even though the end result may be a program employing no AI techniques. These productivity advantages are the hidden truths behind the "myth" that symbolic reasoning programs are better than ordinary ones.