Contributions

  • Rothenberg, Jeff, 1947- - Contributor
  • Rand Corporation. - Contributor
  • United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. - Contributor

Publication

1987 - Rand, Santa Monica, CA, California

Language

English

Word Count

13,750 words, Guess

Page Count

55 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL2384248M
  • ISBN-100833008668
  • OCLC Control Number16131218
  • Library of Congress Control Number87013085
  • Goodreads3699428

Classifications

  • DDC006.3/3
  • LCCQA76.76.E95 E93 1987

Description

This report summarizes the results of study undertaken to develop criteria for evaluating and selecting tools used to build expert systems. The authors used an evaluation framework composed of five elements: (1) application characteristics, which describe the problem and the project to be undertaken; (2) tool capabilities, the capabilities that the tools support; (3) metrics, the quantitative and qualitative measures of merit for expert system tools; (4) assessment techniques, specific ways of applying metrics to tools; and (5) contexts, which describe the ways in which the evaluation criteria depend on the development phases targeted by a project. Many of the study's conclusions relate to software engineering aspects of the expert system endeavor. Robustness, reliability, portability, integrability, database access, concurrent access, performance, and user interface all appear to be increasingly important requirements for tools, as well as eventual requirements for the expert systems that will be produced with those tools. In addition, the expert system paradigm seems to have had a significant and beneficial effect on software engineering itself.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Evaluating expert system tools: a framework and methodologyRand1987-01-01

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