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Knowledge-Based Systems

Technology Map Contents

October 2008

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Technology Map Detailed Contents

Importance of the Technology

The Technology in Brief

  • KBS Within the World of AI
    • Artificial Intelligence: A Definition
    • Types of Artificial Intelligence
    • Knowledge-Based Systems and the Future of Commercial AI
  • Technology Foundations
    • AI Languages and Programming Environments
    • Knowledge-Representation Methodologies
    • Inference and Control Strategies
  • Knowledge Acquisition
  • Probabilistic Systems: Bayesian Networks
  • Application Domains
  • Evolution in KBS-Development Practices

Commercial Development Parameters

  • Demand Factors
  • General Constraints
  • Synergistic Technologies
    • Knowledge-Based Engineering and Systems
    • Ontologies
  • Competing Technologies
    • Complexity Science
    • Swarm Intelligence
    • Artificial-Life Forms and Evolution
    • Machine Learning
  • Required Resources
  • Regulatory Factors

Areas to Monitor

  • Wild Cards
    • The Death of Logic
    • Human-Equivalent Intelligence
  • Smart Surveillance Software
  • Bootstrapped Learning
  • Artificial-Intelligence Frontiers
  • Distributed Artificial Intelligence
  • Intelligent Software Agents
    • Interface Agents
    • Agent-Based Modeling
  • Constraint-Logic Programming
  • Real-Time KBS
  • Visualization Software: A New Tool for Improving Data Comprehension
  • The Semantic Web
  • Open Knowledge Bases
  • Machine Translation

Implications of Commercialization

  • The Evolution (and Dissolution) of the KBS Traditional Marketplace
  • "Hard" versus "Soft" AI and the Question of Success
  • Greater Integration of Knowledge Management and Artificial Intelligence

Opportunities

  • Applications
    • Customer Services and Support
    • Financial Services
    • Health Care
    • Defense and Aerospace
    • Logistics and Retail
    • Manufacturing
    • Automotive and Transportation Applications
    • Entertainment and Consumer
  • Business Models
    • The Enterprise KBS Value Chain
    • The Consumer KBS Value Chain

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