Expert Systems
An expert is said to be a person who posses specialised skill, experience and knowledge that most people don’t have. Expert Systems are artificial intelligence systems which can provide expert information to decision-makers when a human expert is not available. Basically, an expert system works in a way to replace a human. An expert system is a computer program that contains stored knowledge and solves problems in a specific field. For example, A farmer could use an expert system to find out what sort of soil is best for his farm.
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| A Flow Chart of an Expert System |
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An Example of an Expert System is, finger printing analysis software |
Knowledge Bases
In comparsion, knowledge bases are specialized systems which contain information needed to help people. For example in specialized police forces they use a knowledge base that contains fingerprints of criminals. This puts identification of the criminal on a knowledge base and in the future if taken in again and can’t be identified take the unknown person’s fingerprints and can identify them.
