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Area of Science:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  • Expert Systems

Background:

  • Effective knowledge refinement is crucial for improving expert system performance.
  • Designing systems where minor knowledge alterations yield proportional functional changes is essential.
  • Existing methods for knowledge base manipulation can be complex and inefficient.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of small, heuristically guided changes on weighted rule-based expert systems.
  • To present strategies for improving numerical certainties and predicate ordering within knowledge bases.
  • To determine the optimal granularity for knowledge base augmentation.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted two sets of experiments focusing on manipulating numbers (certainties) and relationships (predicates) in a weighted rule base.
  • Developed a credit assignment and weight adjustment strategy for numerical improvements.
  • Evaluated knowledge augmentation using analogical reasoning with both binary and ternary relationships.

Main Results:

  • Ordering numerical certainties simplified manipulation compared to relationships.
  • Rearranging predicates was more effective with additional knowledge about predicate ordering.
  • Knowledge augmentation via analogical reasoning succeeded with ternary relationships but not binary ones.
  • Significant structural units required treatment for minor knowledge base improvements.

Conclusions:

  • Small, heuristically guided changes are valuable for knowledge refinement in expert systems.
  • Strategies for adjusting numerical certainties and predicate order enhance system performance.
  • Ternary relationships are more effective than binary ones for knowledge augmentation through analogical reasoning.
  • Appropriate granularity is critical for successful knowledge base augmentation.