Article ID: | iaor1991244 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 17 |
Start Page Number: | 571 |
End Page Number: | 580 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1990 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Ignizio James P., Deal Don E., Chen Jen-Gwo, Jeyakumar V. |
Keywords: | scheduling, artificial intelligence: expert systems |
In constructing an expert system, the developers (i.e. the knowledge engineers) meet with a multitude of situations which may necessitate modification of development procedures, may affect project milestone schedules or which may influence final system inplementation. In this paper, the authors outline their efforts in constructing an expert system scheduler for a major petrochemical company-with a focus on events and situations which can have profound effects on practical expert system development work. As will be noted, the problems encountered are not all that different from those faced in the development and implementation of any tool for (real-world) system automation.