Expert System
Domain: Agent Architectures
🎯 Motivation
An agent (or system) that encodes human expert knowledge in a specific domain and uses it to make expert-level decisions.
📋 Concrete Example
Medical expert system: symptoms -> possible diagnoses -> recommended tests -> treatment options. It encodes a doctor’s decision-making process.MYCIN was an early expert system for bacterial infections.
🔗 Analogy
A senior doctor who has seen 10,000 patients - their experience (encoded knowledge) lets them diagnose quickly. Expert systems encode this experience as rules or patterns.