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What's So Bad About Rule-Based Programming?
September/October 1991 (vol. 8 no. 5)
pp. 103, 105
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"What's So Bad About Rule-Based Programming?," IEEE Software, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 103, 105, September/October, 1991.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MS.1991.10050,
author = {},
title = {What's So Bad About Rule-Based Programming?},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {8},
number = {5},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {1991},
pages = {103, 105},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.1991.10050},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - MGZN
JO - IEEE Software
TI - What's So Bad About Rule-Based Programming?
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SN - 0740-7459
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EPD - 103, 105
PY - 1991
KW - rule-based programming; expert-systems; knowledge engineering; reliability; maintainability; expert systems; logic programming
VL - 8
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The frustration expressed by some leading researchers in the field with the limited number of large systems deployed based on expert-systems technology is addressed. It is argued that the problem is related to the inherent nature of rule-based programming. It is maintained that systems developed with the rule-based paradigm are unmaintainable, untestable, and unreliable. It is concluded that unless knowledge engineering has a set of mechanisms to address reliability and maintainability, it is headed for a crisis.

Index Terms:
rule-based programming; expert-systems; knowledge engineering; reliability; maintainability; expert systems; logic programming
Citation:
"What's So Bad About Rule-Based Programming?," IEEE Software, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 103, 105, Sept.-Oct. 1991, doi:10.1109/MS.1991.10050
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