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Default Expert Systems: Principles and Programming, Fourth Edition

Expert Systems: Principles and Programming, Fourth Edition
by Joseph C. Giarratano and Gary D. Riley

October 15, 2004

ISBN-13: 978-0534384470
ISBN-10: 0534384471

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The first half of the book concentrates on the theoretical base of expert systems, and offers a broad overview of Artificial Intelligence and its relation to expert systems. The second half of the text focuses on application, with the introduction of the CLIPS expert systems tool, and its new object-oriented language, COOL.
CLIPS: A Tool for Building Expert Systems
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Like most computer programming & information technology books, this one is a sales pitch and consists almost entirely of hype. There is little pedagogical sophistication which is probably a good thing since the author has a head full of squirrels (in the sense that his perspectives often seem to involve or are closely related to interpersonal metaphors). Again, something that is very common (the norm) within computer programming & information technology. That being said, the sales pitch is more folksy and authentic than that of the common tech writer for hire. The author is actually quite experienced with the technology so that understanding is present in a first-hand fashion rather than the bluff, bluster, and rabid mind-washy battology of the typical mercenary hack hired by some pulp publisher.
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