Selection of an Appropriate Domain for an Expert System

At the start of a project looking into the development of an expert system, the knowledge engineering project team must investigate one or several possible expert system domains. To evaluate the potential of possible application domains, it has proved very useful to have a set of desired attributes for good expert domain. The attribute set was developed as part of a major expert system development project at GTE Laboratories. It was used recurrently (and modified and expanded continually) throughout an extensive application domain evaluation and selection process.