artificial intelligence - pre final

an ___________ is an intelligent computer program the uses knowledge and inference procedures to solve problems that are difficult enough to require significant human expertise for their solutions

a ______________ contains a collection of information in a given field. The __________ of an expert system stores both factual and heuristic knowledge.

based on facts

based on practice, evaluation, experiences and the ability to guess

an _____________ engine is used to acquire insights from the information housed in the knowledge base

The three functional elements of inference engine

determines the order of testing in the knowledge base rules

defines the boolean application rules

justifies the outcome to the user with the reasoning process

two strategies that an inference engine can use to reach a conclusion