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The main problem in the development of expert systems or knowledge based systems is the construction of the knowledge base. Not only the elicitation of the human knowledge is a crucial problem but also the codification of this knowledge into a consistent and easily modifiable and extensible knowledge system. In this paper we analyse two possible strategies to build a knowledge system. We describe how they can be implemented in Prolog and investigate their usability and their flexibility for building expert systems. The two architectures are used to build an expert system for symbolic integration. Finally we describe how the technique of partial evaluation could be used to derive an expert system of the second architecture from an expert system written using the centralised scheduler.
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Venken, R., Bruynooghe, M., Dekeyser, L., Krekels, B. (1985). The Centralised Scheduler vs. The Distributed Specialists: Towards a Flexible Controller in Prolog for Expert Systems. In: Brauer, W., Radig, B. (eds) Wissensbasierte Systeme. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70840-4_27
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