The Full-Sized Knowledge-Based Systems Research Workshop was held May 7-8, 1990 in Washington, D.C., as part of the AI Systems in Government Conference sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Mitre Corporation and George Washington University in cooperation with AAAI. The goal of the workshop was to convene an international group of researchers and practitioners to share insights into the problems of building and deploying Full-Sized Knowledge Based Systems (FSKBSs). The term "full-sized" was chosen to encourage discussion of questions not only of largeness but also of breadth, depth, maturity, and deployment scale. For example, a 1000-rule expert system facilitating knowledge sharing and collaboration between several thousand users was felt to be as interesting to the workshop as a 100,000-rule system with only a few users. That notwithstanding, the underlying question was how to overcome the brittleness and narrowness of the first generation of expert systems, and how to use a variety of new ideas and technologies to increase the scale, intelligence, and capability of the systems currently able to be fielded.

The Full-Sized Knowledge-Based Systems Research Workshop was held May 7-8, 1990 in Washington, D.C., as part of the AI Systems in Government Conference sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Mitre Corporation and George Washington University in cooperation with AAAI. The goal of the workshop was to convene an international group of researchers and practitioners to share insights into the problems of building and deploying Full-Sized Knowledge Based Systems (FSKBSs).