Generic Tasks in Knowledge-Based Reasoning: High-Level Building Blocks for Expert System Design

IEEE Expert-Intelligent Systems and their Applications

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1986, Pages 23-30

  Chandrasekaran, B ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0345666365     PISSN: 08859000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEX.1986.4306977     Document Type: Article

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