Knowledge-Based Expert Systems: A Brief Bibliography

A number of Artificial Intelligence AI systems have appeared in recent years whose approaches appear very fruitful for a wide variety of real- world tasks that are performed by knowledgeable but not necessarily understanding experts. In the interest of acquainting a wider audience to a representative sampling of these systems, and especially to the approaches they embody, the following selective reading list is proposed. These readings are not overly technical, and usually make their main points by way of examples of natural language dialog between a user and the expert AI system. Papers usually contain further references to related work and background material. The intended audience includes engineers especially designers, social scientists, computer specialists without AI background, and other professionals. In the following, I have grouped papers roughly into categories, some of which contain specific systems while others are broader overviews or even general introductions to the wider field of AI. In the interest of being representative, a number of systems of approximately equal significance to those given hear have been omitted. The papers here do in fact refer to these others.