An approach to improving the maintainability of existing rule bases

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 23-31

  Higa, Kunihiko ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Expert systems; Rule base maintenance; Rule simplification; Rule structure

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FORMAL LOGIC; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

COMPLEX RULE STRUCTURE; RULE BASE MAINTENANCE; RULE SIMPLIFICATION; RULE STRUCTURE; SIDE EFFECTS; SIMPLIFICATION PROCEDURE;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030241086     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-9236(96)00015-2     Document Type: Article

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