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Knowledge-Based Backtracking," is a principal researcher for the Advanced Technology Center, Boeing Computer Services, P.O. Preston A. Cox, coauthor of "Real-Time Knowledge-Based Systems," is a scientific programmer specialist for Lockheed's Space System Division in Sunnyvale, California. Rebecca Gomez is a graduate research assistant at the Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexi-0.88003. Kentieth M. Kahn, author of the workshop report "Concurrent Logic Programming, Metaprogramming, and Open Systems, " is a member of the research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304. His interests include computer language design, distributed computing, logic programming, parallel computations, and object-oriented programming.

David Brown, author of "A Graduate-Level Expert Systems Course," is associate professor of computer science and coordinator of the AI Research Group at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609. His research is in the area of knowledge-based problem solving for design. Sandra Carberry, who wrote the report on the First International Workshop on User Modeling, is assistant professor of computer and information sciences and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716. David E. Heckerman, coauthor of "Thinking Bacltward for Knowledge Acquisition," is a Ph D. student in the Medical Information Sciences Program at Stanford University, Medical School Office Building, Room 215, Stanford Medical Center, Stanford, California 94305. His research interests include the representation and analysis of decision problems under uncertainty, particularly in medicine Robert F. Hink is president of Expert Systems ...

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Rick Briggs, author of "Knowledge Representation and Inference in Sanskrit: A Review of the First National Conference," is a senior engineer at Delfin Systems, 1349 Moffett Park Drive, Sunnyvale, California 94089. Briggs is currently working on natural language processing, numeric and symbolic coupling, and expert system development in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Delfin Systems. Lindley Darden, who wrote "Viewing the History of Science as Compiled Hindsight,lI is an associate professor in the departments of philosophy and history and a member of the graduate faculty in the Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is currently serving in the second year of a halftime research appointment at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. Her mailing address is Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742.

Tin Nguyen performed the work contained in the article "Knowledge Base Verification" while at Lockheed and is currently working for Bell Northern Research as a member of the research staff. Rick Brigs, author of "Knowledge Representation and Inference in Sanskrit: A Review of the First National Conference," is a senior engineer at Delfin Systems, 1349 Moffett Park Drive, Sunnyvale, California 94089. Briggs is currently working on natural language processing, numeric and symbolic coupling, and expert system development in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Delfin Systems. Lindley Darden, who wrote "Viewing the History of Science as Compiled Hindsight," is an associate professor in the departments of philosophy and history and a member of the graduate faculty in the Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is currently serving in the second year of a halftime research appointment at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.

A novel approach is presented for the development of expert systems for structural design problems. This approach differs from the conventional expert systems in two fundamental respects. First, mathematical optimization is introduced into the design process. Second, a computer is used to obtain parts of the knowledge necessary in the expert systems in addition to heuristics and experiential knowledge obtained from documented materials and human experts. As an example of this approach, a prototype coupled expert system, the bridge truss expert (BTExpert), is presented for optimum design of bridge trusses subjected to moving loads.

We built on previous work to develop an evaluation method that can be used to select expert system applications which are most likely to be successfully implemented. Both essential and desirable features of an expert system application are discussed. Essential features are used to ensure that the application does not require technology beyond the state of the art. Advice on helpful directions for evaluating candidate expert system applications is also given. If expert systems are to withstand this transition, special attention must be paid to the applications that are selected to test the real-world impact of this technology.

Within the academic and professional auditing communities, there has been growing concern about how to accurately assess the various risks associated with performing an audit. These risks are difficult to conceptualize in terms of numeric estimates. Models of decision making under conditions of risk are well established in decisiontheory literature. In these models, risk and return (payoffs) are specified in terms of numeric estimates, and the goal is to make a decision that maximizes some expected value. In addition, new information can be combined using a decision rule (such as Bayes' rule) for deriving revised estimates of risk.

Introduction This article describes the initial stages of an effort to develop a knowledge-based financial marketing consultant system. The project for Financial Marketing Expertise (FAME), is to produce a system that addresses the area usually referred to asfinnncial nzarketing. This term characterizes the financial decision processes used in the marketing of products and services of such large scale that they can significantly impact a company's financial status. In particular, our project emphasizes financial marketing as it applies to the marketing of computers. For instance, a customer interested in buying computing technology on a large scale is usually concerned that the financing plan being used to acquire the technology is safe, sound, and attractive from a financial investment point of view. Therefore, in making very large sales, financial considerations often become as important as the computing considerations. We have found financial marketing to be a very interesting and ...