Expert systems : the technology of knowledge management and decision making for the 21st century / edited by Cornelius T. Leondes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Also issued online.

V. 1. -- chapter 1. History and applications / John Durkin. -- ch. 2. Tools and applications / John Durkin. -- ch. 3. Development and applications of decision trees / Hussein Almuallom, Shigeo Kaneda, and Yasuhiro Akiba. -- ch. 4. Reasoning with imperfect information / Simon Parsons. -- ch. 5. Experimental design and decision support / Tay Kiang Meng. -- ch. 6. A model-based expert system based on a domain ontology / Yoshinobu Kitamura, Mitsuru Ikeda, and Riichiro Mizoguchi. -- ch. 7. Intelligent system control: a unified approach and applications / Hui-Min Huang [and others]. -- ch. 8. Real-Time Fault -- Tolerant control systems / Wei Liu.

V.2. chapter 9. Model of reasoning with conflicting information sources in knowledge-based systems / Jinxin Lin. -- ch. 10. Process planning in design and manufacturing systems / Mahmut Gulesin. -- ch. 11. Intelligent systems techniques and their application in manufacturing systems / Tien-Fu Lu and Grier C.I. Lin. -- ch. 12. Architecture, engineering, and construction design / Tom Andersen. -- ch. 13. Neural networks for process control: application to the temperature control of batch chemical reactors / J.L. Dirion [and others] -- ch. 14. Intelligent tools and their applications in geographic information systems / Erh-Chun Yea, Zarko Sumic, and S.S. Venkata. -- ch. 15. Microprocessor systems / S.M. Yuen and K.P. Lam. -- ch. 16. Scheduling systems for shipbuilding / Jae Kyu Lee [and others].

V.3. chapter 17. Genetic image interpretation / Milan Sonka. -- ch. 18. Automated visual assembly inspection / Khalid W. Khawaja [and others] -- ch. 19. Multiresolution invariant image recognition / Stefanos D. Kollias and Anastasios N. Delopoulos. -- ch. 20. Image processing for automatic roads determination / Meir Barzohar and David B. Cooper. -- ch. 21. Automated visual inspection. / I. Andreadis. -- ch. 22. Visual programming technology in expert systems development / Yoshiyuki Koseki [and others]. -- ch. 23. CAD-based vision systems in pattern matching process / Yves Lucas [and others]. -- ch. 24. Celluar automata architectures for pattern recognition / P. Tzionas and I. Andreadis. -- ch. 25. Machine intelligent system techniques for automatic harvest systems / Seiichi Inoue [and others]. -- ch. 26. Integrating machine learning with knowledge acquisition / Geoffrey I. Webb. -- ch. 27. Modeling human reasoning processes under uncertain conditions / Sumit Sarkar.

V.4. chapter 28. Devising an expert system for pediatric syndrome diagnosis / Oivind Braaten. -- ch. 29. Automatic knowledge discovery in larger scale knowledge-data bases / Ning Zhong and Setsuo Ohsuga. -- ch. 30. Efficient legacy data utilization / David J. Russomanno. -- Ch. 31. Investment decision making / Sanja Vranes [and others]. -- ch. 32. Intelligent systems control in manufacturing cells / Yu-Liang Sun and Yuehwern Yih. -- ch. 33. Knowledge-based approach for automating web publishing from databases / Zhangxi Lin [and others]. -- ch. 34. Neural networks for economic forecasting problems / Kazuhiro Kohara. -- ch. 35. Determination of principal components in data / Ferdinand Peper [and others]. -- ch. 36. Time-series prediction / Hisashi Shimodaira.

V.5. chapter 37. Hybrid expert systems: an approach to combining neural computation and rule-based reasoning / Ernesto Burattini [and others]. -- ch. 38. Popfnns: fuzzy neural techniques for rule-based identification in expert systems / C. Quek and R.W. Zhou. -- ch. 39. Preventive quality management / Gerhard Peter [and others].-- ch. 40. Distributed logic processors in process identification / E. Ikonen, U. Kortela, and k. Najim. -- ch. 41. Knowledge representation by means of multilayer perceptrons / Elena Perez Minana. -- ch. 42. A guide to research in assumption-based truth maintenance system constraint satisfaction / J. Tay, C. Quek, and S. Huang. -- ch. 43. Method for utilization of previous experience in design expert systems / Takashi Ishikawa and Takao Terano. -- ch. 44. Model-based process fault diagnosis / Hisashi Shimodaira.

V. 6. chapter 45. Automation of concept development / Ryuji Kudo and Takao Terano. -- ch. 46. Methodology for building case-based reasoning systems in III-structured optimization domains / Kazuo Miyashita. -- ch. 47. The trainer system: applying QR techniques to intelligent tutoring systems / C. Quek, W.C. Sim, and C.K. Looi. -- ch. 48. Structuring expert control using the integrated process supervision architecture / C. Quek, M. Pasquier, and P.W. NG. -- ch. 49. Tap: an inquiry teaching shell using both rule-based and state-space approaches / C. Quek, L.H. Wopng, and C.K. Looi. -- ch. 50. Self teaching and exploratory task-learning methods in unknown environments and applications in robotic skills / Rui Araujo [and others].