Developing expertise in expert system development by developing prototypes for actual commercial applications

Abstract

We designed and exzcuted a course to develop expert system expertise in a classroom environment.It taught both the theory and practice of knowledge-based systems. Teams consisted of knowledge domain experts and computer experienced people. The interest was training people in knowledge-base tasks and having them develop commercially significant projects. The focus of this paper is on what was done in the classroom to provide a significant expert system development experience.