The Pet Shop Pet Selector - Tutorial

Contents

• Introduction
• Assumptions
• SECTION 1 - Devising the Questions (The difficult part)
  • Getting Started - Conditions and Traits
  • Normalisation
  • Devise User Questions
  • Devise Knowledge Engineer Questions
  • Question Types
  • Question Help
  • Dependencies
  • Question Importance
• SECTION 2 - Populating the Knowledge Base
  • Getting Started
  • Adding Records (Possible Solutions)
  • Describing Records
  • Modifying Records
  • Adding Duplicate Records (or Possible Solutions)
  • Modifying the Question Set (after adding records)
• SECTION 3 - Testing the System
  • To be completed...
• Please Note

Introduction
This page contains a simple step-by-step example for using the Expert System Builder (ESB) series of programs. It is by no means exhaustive and is intended merely as an introduction to using the system. This step-by-step example develops a simple pet shop questionaire that is able to recommend an appropriate pet for someone based upon their lifestyle and personal preferences. It is not intended to be complete nor does it claim to be accurately predict a suitable pet for you so please don't try and implement it and then blame me.

The tutorial does not focus on the detailed mechanics of driving the program as these are well covered in the associated help files.

Assumptions
To simplify the problem I have assuming that our pet shop only stocks (or is aware of) the following animals:

• Cats
• Dogs
• Rabbits
• Hamsters, Gerbils or Mice
• GoldFish
• Budgies
• Tropical Fish

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