Development and Simulation of Medicine Prescription System to represent the Application of Expert system

Abstract

An Expert System is a computer program coded to simulate knowledge and behavior of an individual or an organization which is expert in some particular field, usually all expert systems contains a knowledge base which is accessible by a set of rules depending on specific situations. Among the number of expert systems the best examples of they can be named as Chess Game or the medical diagnosis expert systems. An expert system is divided into two sub-systems: inference engine and knowledge base. Knowledge base represents facts and rules. Inference engine applies rules to known facts to deduce new facts. Inference engines may also include explanation and debugging capabilities.