Article ID: | iaor1991239 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 17 |
Start Page Number: | 523 |
End Page Number: | 533 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1990 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Ignizio James P. |
Keywords: | artificial intelligence: expert systems |
Recent interest in the topic of expert systems has been enormous, and continues to grow. This allegedly new tool has been proposed for implementation in an incredibly diverse array of problems, including a host of problem types that are (or should be) of interest to the operations researcher. In this tutorial, a very brief overview of expert systems is presented. In particular, its relationship and usefulness to the operations research profession is examined.