Expert systems

Expert systems in the food industry

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Expert systems have a number of definitions, but essentially they're software programs that capture as much of the total ability of a human expert as possible, beyond textbook knowledge or written instructions. A successful system combines the experience, knowledge, insights, intuition and educated guesses of the expert.

"Expert Systems, which are the most commercially successful result of research in Artificial Intelligence, are software entities that emulate the cognitive abilities of human experts in complex decision making situa-tions. As one of the primary activities of Computer Science and depend-ent heavily on the rapid developments in computer technology, Expert Systems have been eagerly adopted by industry and applied to a wide range of applications. Expert Systems belong to the field of Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems that constitute one of the principal fields of activity of Computational Intelligence, a field which has been referred to as the science that attempts to reproduce human intelligence using com-putational means. " (chapter2 experts systems in industry)

the best known expert system in the food industry is the system developed for Campbell Soup in the mid-1980s by Dr. Richard Herrod at Texas Instruments.