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P.J. Tunturi and J. Radio. Expert system for selection of materials and coatings in ventilation sysrem.s in pulp and paper indu.stry. In A. J.insson and L. Olander, eds. Ventilation 94 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Ventilation for Contaminant Control, pp. 149-1.52, 1994. 

Westcott, C., Williams, D. E., Croall, I. F., Patel, S. and Bernie, J. A. The development and application of integrated expert systems and databases for corrosion consultancy. In Plant Corrosion Prediction of Materials Performance, Ibid. 

Bogaerts, W. F., Ryckaert, M. R. and Yancoille, M. J. S., PRIME—the European ESPRIT project on expert systems for materials selection. In Proceedings of Corrosion 88, St Louis, 1988, paper 121, NACE, Houston (1988)... 

Processing intelligent What is needed is to cut inefficiency, such as the variables, and in turn cut the costs associated with them. One approach that can overcome these difficulties is called intelligent processing (IP) of materials. This technology utilizes new sensors, expert systems, and process models that control processing conditions as materials are produced and processed without the need for human control or monitoring. Sensors and expert systems are not new in themselves. 

There are some aspects of process design in which decisions are based primarily on past experience rather than on quantitative performance models. Problems of this type include the selection of constraction materials, the selection of appropriate models for evaluating the physical properties of homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures of components, and the selection of safety systems. Advances in expert systems technology and information management will have a profound impact on expressing the solutions to these problems. 

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Although most expert systems are designed to advise fairly unsophisticated users, some act instead as assistants to established human experts DENDRAL, which we introduce shortly, falls in this category. Rather than replacing the expert, these systems enhance their productivity. Assistants of this sort have particular value in fields, such as law or medicine, in which the amount of potentially relevant background material may be so large that not even a human expert may fully be cognizant with it. 

Now that the definition of a volatile liquid has been settled, the expert system could apply the rule. However, this approach is clearly unsatisfactory. The all-or-nothing crisp set that defines "volatile" does not allow for degrees of volatility. This conflicts with our common sense notion of volatility as a description, which changes smoothly from low-boiling liquids, like diethyl ether (boiling point = 34.6°C), which are widely accepted to be volatile, to materials like graphite or steel that are nonvolatile. If a human expert used the rule ... 

RuleMaker, a subsystem of RuleMaster, induces rules for all situations from examples that may cover only some of the cases. At the heart of the induction process is the creation of an induction file, which in part includes examples indicating what the expert system should do under different circumstances. Now, in the example above, THE RULES FOR CORRELATING VARIOUS CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PARAMETERS OF THE HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS TESTED WITH THE PROTECTIVE ABILITY OF THE SELECTED GLOVE MATERIALS ARE NOT KNOWN — THEY WILL HAVE TO BE INDUCED FR04 THE ANALYTICAL DATA. 

The success of SYNLMA shows that it is possible to base an expert system on a theorem prover. The advantage of using a theorem prover as deductive component is that it allows us to experiment with a number of different representations for chemical information. The same flexibility makes it easy to add new starting materials and reaction rules from large commercial online databases. 

Concerted Organic Analysis of Materials and Expert-System Development... 

General. We have studied the characterization of multicomponent materials by combining modem analytical instrumentation with a commercially available AI expert system development tool. Information generated from selected analytical databases may be accessed using TIMM, ( The Intelligent Machine Model, ) available from General Research Corp., McLean, VA. This Fortran expert system shell has enabled development of EXMAT, a heuristically-1inked network of expert systems for materials analysis. 

EXMAT - A Linked Network of Expert Systems for Materials Analysis. Seven individual expert systems comprise EXMAT (1) problem definition and analytical strategy (2) instrumental configuration and conditions (3) data generation (4) chemometric/search algorithms (5) results (6) interpretation (7) analytical goals. Dynamic headspace (DHS)/GC and pyrolysis GC (PGC)/concentrators... 

A LINKED NETWORK OF EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR MATERIAL ANALYSIS... 

Development of a linked network of expert systems, EXMAT, has been described for application to materials characterization. Selected instrumentation which are common to modern laboratories generate databases that are treated and interpreted within an analytical strategy directed toward a desired goal. Extension to other problem-solving situations may use the same format, but with specialized tools and domain-specific libraries. Importantly, a chemometrician s expertise has been embedded into EXMAT through access to information derived from a linked expert system,... 

EXMATH. Figures 7 and 8 outline this multilevel expert systems approach developed for application of selected analytical instruments to the field of materials science. 

Expert systems are easy to program and to understand because they usually resemble instructions in English. The time and cost for developing these systems is relatively small. The primary problem usually turns out to be interpreting the sensors. Because first and second derivatives of sensor data are used to find trends and patterns, noise can be a major problem. The rules allow the controller to adapt to the condition of the material and to the geometry of the part. Expert systems make it relatively easy to change to backup plans when sensor or equipment failures occur. In fact, rule-based systems can be quite general and handle a number of materials with little material specific data. 

The system ESKA (Expert System for Selection and Optimization of Catalysts [20]) was designed at BASF specifically for hydrogenation reactions. The main component of a catalyst is proposed on the basis of activity patterns which describe the applicability of catalysts for different types of hydrogenations. The system also is able to propose secondary catalyst components and, if necessary, a support material which is stable under reaction conditions and does not have any undesired catalytic properties. Based on heuristics for required as well as undesired side reactions and for different catalytically active components, the system also proposes reaction conditions as temperature, pressure, the solvent or the pH. 

A Data Procurement for Knowledge-based Systems Progress in analytical characterization of catalysts plays an important role in their further development and improvement. Synergistic effects of complimentary characterization tools by which different properties of the catalytic materials arc determined are claimed to be beneficial in catalyst design. If this is so, then an expert system for assisting in catalyst selection should be designed in such a way that it accounts for different chemical and physico-chemical properties and their relation to catalytic performance of solid materials. 

The catalytic behavior of solid materials is certainly largely governed by the nature of their few topmost atomic layers. However, it can be assumed that these layers are frequently related to the bulk properties of the materials. If one goes along with this preposition, catalytic performance should also be related at least partly to these properties. Then in turn, an expert system should not only incorporate surface but also bulk properties, such as crystallographic structure, lattice parameters, cluster sizes, electronic conductivity and concentration of ion defects. 

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