]> http://www.eapstra.org/taxonomy/term/9/0 Forum for discussion of Artifical Intelligence related topics. en http://www.eapstra.org/node/40 <p>The official EAPSTRA project closed with the end of the year 2005.<br /> Nevertheless, these forums will stay alive. Please feel free to post<br /> new enquiries or start new discussions.</p> <p>Dirk Müller<br /> Project Manager</p> AI forum Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:20:29 +0100 http://www.eapstra.org/node/18 <p>The term Knowledge Based System (KBS) is more general than the notion of an Expert System, but both are classed as AI (Artificial Intelligence) tools. Although almost all commercially available expert system shells allow external programs and databases be used, the expert systems are centred mainly around heuristic knowledge. However, the real-world domains are more complex and the problem solving there requires, as a rule, an intensive usage of different kinds of knowledge. Thus, KBSs are not centred around one kind of knowledge. To the contrary, the declarative, procedural, and heuristic knowledge in such systems have the same rights and significance in the process of decision making. In summary every ES is a KBS, however, the same does not apply vice-versa.</p> AI forum Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:32:55 +0000