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Expert Systems: An Overview for Social Scientists

This survey article examines the nature of expert systems, describes conventional approaches to expert systems construction, discusses contexts in which expert systems are and are not appropriate, provides private and public sector examples of expert systems, and inventories various types of expert systems development tools. In addition, separate sections examine the special topics of inductive expert systems and of neural networks. It is concluded that expert system software could become an important new class of tools for social scientists. Keywords expert systems, neural networks, artificial intelligence, modeling, social science.