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Designing for flexibility: a case study
Author(s) -
Forslund Göran
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
expert systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1468-0394
pISSN - 0266-4720
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0394.1995.tb00023.x
Subject(s) - computer science , flexibility (engineering) , heuristic , representation (politics) , knowledge representation and reasoning , expert system , knowledge management , artificial intelligence , data science , statistics , mathematics , politics , political science , law
Expert systems have traditionally been designed with one particular purpose in mind, whether problem‐solving, critiquing etc. When the system is intended for users with varying background knowledge it becomes necessary to provide different facilities for different groups of users, which in turn puts demands on how the knowledge must be represented. This paper describes an industrial prototype—Protein Purification Advisor (PPA)—in the area of protein purification, and how a suitable choice of knowledge representation has allowed us to use the same knowledge for a number of purposes including those mentioned above. Particular interest is laid on the topic of how to represent the heuristic knowledge and how to use it in actual decision‐making.