6.871 SPRING 2006

Reading Summary: Lecture 6

Due Thursday, Feb 28, 9:35AM

Please answer the following questions in at most one page.

Lecture 6: Rule-Based Systems

R. Davis paper:

1) MYCIN’s task:

a) What was the task?

b) Why was that particular domain chosen?

c) What made it suitable for a knowledge-based system?

d) What made it suitable for a rule-based system?

2) What are the basic strengths and weaknesses of rule-based systems, as reported in this paper?