OBJECT RECORD / AIM-BOOK-1984-001
Rule-Based Expert Systems: The MYCIN Experiments
A 754-page critical account of a rule-based expert-system research programme.
CURATORIAL READING
Why it is here
Buchanan and Shortliffe edited a retrospective analysis of nearly a decade of MYCIN-related experiments. Its contents expose the work around the rule engine: acquiring knowledge, handling uncertainty, explaining conclusions, and evaluating a system.
Evidence boundary
This is a research record, not medical guidance or a deployment certificate. Read how rules, uncertainty, explanation, evaluation, and human use were separated into design problems.
04 / ENCODE EXPERTISE
Position in the guided path
From written rules to learned representations
A research programme writes domain knowledge as inspectable rules.
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Source trail
Addison-Wesley edition; Columbia University author archive ·