专家系统介绍

原文：

An expert system is a software that encapsulates specialist knowledge-about a particular domain of expertise and is capable of making intelligent decisions with in that domain. Although expert systems typically  focus on a  very narrow domain, they have achieved dramatic success with real-life problems, This has excited wide spread interest outside the research laboratories from which they emerged.

Expert systems have given rise to a set of "knowledge engineering" methods  constituting a new approach to design of high performance sofeware system. This new approach represents an evolutionary change with revolutionary consequences. 

译文：

专家系统是一种封装的、特定的、特定领域知识的专家软件，在这个特定的领域中，这种软件可以做出正确的决定。尽管典型的专家系统只涉及较窄的领域，但它们已经在一些现实生活的问题中取得了显著成功。这种成功激发了广大的、各领域的试验研究人员的兴趣。

专家系统提出了一种“知识工程”方法集，它可提供了一种设计高性能软件系统的新方法。这种方法代表了一种将带来革命性影响的变化。