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Buchanan and Shortliffe (1984) define an expert system as an AI program designed to provide expert-level solutions to complex problems, to be understandable, and to accommodate new knowledge easily.

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Rule-Based Expert Systems: The MYCIN Experiments of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Project → discusses →

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Rule-Based Expert Systems: The MYCIN Experiments of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Projectdiscusses ↓

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Date: 1984 · publication Records dated 1984 →

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Chapter 1, The Context of the MYCIN Experiments

shortliffe.net (host); Addison Wesley (publisher) · 1984

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“it is an AI program designed (a) to provide expert-level solutions to complex problems, (b) to be understandable, and (c) to be flexible enough to accommodate new knowledge easily.”

Location in source PDF p. 3, section 1.1

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Authors: Bruce G. Buchanan; Edward H. Shortliffe
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Language: English (en)
Attribution: Bruce G. Buchanan, Edward H. Shortliffe, “Chapter 1, The Context of the MYCIN Experiments”, 1984.
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