Applications Development Using a Hybrid AI Development System

As a result of our applications development experiences, we are beginning to use a development methodology that emphasizes early prototype development, incremental refinement of the problem description, use of multiple integrated solution methods, and emphasis on visibility of both the problem-solution process and the explicit description of the problem domain. The benefits of using this hybrid development methodology include natural and explicit knowledge representations, flexible user-system interaction, and powerful explanation facilities through use of interactive graphics. We present an example to motivate our discussion. Workers in AI often express a strong preference for one programming methodology over all others, such as rules (e.g., within an Efficiency seems to depend upon the class of problem chosen. Figure 2. expert need not create a development environment before implementing an AI application system.