Rule Based Systems

• One of the big successes of AI is rule based systems.
• Particularly in the 70s, RBSs (also called Expert Systems) were really successful industrially.
• An AI guy, a knowledge engineer, would talk to a domain expert.
• The domain expert would describe the domain in a series of rules.
• This expertise would be encoded as a series of rules, and you'd have an expert system.
• The old systems are still used, and new RBSs are made all the time, but it's no longer cutting edge research.
• Clips is a good proudction system. It's shareware.
• You could easily make a rule-based agent for a game. If you're behind the opponent shoot. If you're in front of the opponent, turn to lose him.
• Clips allows you to call out, so you could do this in say XNA.