AI Tools and Techniques

An in-depth description and analysis of some of the most important tools and techniques that are available to the professional artificial intelligence programmer, researcher, or student are presented in this text. The focus is primarily, but not exclusively, on expert system development tools, particularly those that have been in use in the USA and other countries for several years as well as some newer tools or extensions to existing tools. These tools are primarily rule-based and frame-based systems with support for functional object-oriented, and access-oriented programming paradigms. Some of the tools are only available in the research community, but many are commercial tools that are currently used for both research and product development.