Trends in expert system development: A longitudinal content analysis of over thirty years of expert system case studies

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 76, Issue , 2017, Pages 85-96

  Wagner, William P ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study; Content analysis; Expert systems; Knowledge based systems

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; CASE-STUDIES; CONTENT ANALYSIS; EXPERT SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; FUNCTIONAL AREAS; PROBLEM DOMAIN; SAMPLE SIZES;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 85011580111     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2017.01.028     Document Type: Article

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