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The book "Building Knowledge Automation Expert Systems with Exsys CORVID" is a comprehensive guide that explores and unearths the practical methods of planning, developing and deploying knowledge automation expert systems. This book details the real-world factors as well as the potential pitfalls, and ways to avoid them.

For businesses and organizations to sustain productivity and competitive advantage, they can no longer just provide information and data - what is needed is knowledge that can be directly delivered in-house and on Web sites to customers. Capturing and disseminating knowledge is the goal of knowledge automation. The expert knowledge and experience within a company's best employees, can be captured and distributed. This book will help a company develop and implement a strategy to develop and field knowledge automation expert systems in a way that will produce maximum ROI in the shortest time.

This book provides you with the tools and realistic strategies build and implement expert systems in today's Internet focused world. Dr. Awad also presents many case studies and online links from leading companies worldwide.

The book contains an evaluation version of Exsys CORVID and a key disk that will activate it to run for 120 days and build systems of up to 250 nodes. (The normal evaluation version of CORVID will only run for 30 days and build 150 nodes). The extended evaluation version available with this text book is ideal for academic settings since it allows the CORVID software to be used for a full semester.

Each chapter discusses implications for management, and includes a glossary of terms, review questions, and exercises and cases. Areas covered include:

• How Knowledge Automation compares to other types of AI
• Understanding different types of knowledge
• Types of problem-solving applications that work best, those to avoid
• The life cycle of developing a system and pitfalls to avoid
• The basics of capturing knowledge and working with domain experts
• Inferencing strategies and explanations
• System implementation

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