Can someone Give me an idea on how i would start this Design

Can someone Give me an idea on how i would start this.

Design an expert system based that performs some analysis task other than animal identification or disease diagnosis or vacation recommendation

. a. Represent your “expert” knowledge as a series of “IF .. THEN” rules, similar in form to the animal identifier rules in Appendix A.

b. Your inference tree must be at least four layers deep - i.e. some of your rules must depend on other rules, which in turn depend on other rules, which in turn depend on information supplied by the user (e.g. in the example I9 depends on I5/I6, which in turn depend on I1/ I2, which in turn depend on information supplied by the user.) It can be deeper if you wish.

c. Some of your hypotheses must be at least two rules wide (e.g. “mammal” can be inferred using either I1 or I2). You can have wider rules if you wish.

d. In the animal identifier example, all of the rules ultimately involved asking the user “yesno” questions. But it is also possible to have rules that require asking the user to enter a number, or to choose from a list of options. (Examples of both of these kinds of rules are found in Appendix B, which gives code for a simple vacation adviser, with Prolog representation in Appendix C). Some of your rules must involve each of these three kinds of information.

e. There must be a minimum of 25 rules. f. While it is certainly expected that your rules will be reasonable, your project will not be evaluated on the accuracy of your rules!

Solution

Numerical processing involves the execution of tasks on computers where numbers and mathematical relationships are in the core of the processing. For example, preparing a payroll involves the computation of wages and deductibles. Symbolic processing involves attributes and nonalgorithmic processing. For example, the \"production system\" discussed in this chapter is an ideal vehicle for symbolic processing, where information is stored as IF-THEN rules.