An Ontology-Based Expert System for Financial Statements Analysis

An expert system is a computer program that is constructed by obtaining problem solving knowledge from a human expert and coding it into a form that a computer may apply to similar problems (Giarratano & Riley, 2005). The reliance on the knowledge of a human domain expert for the system’s problem solving strategies is a major feature of expert systems. It was developed by researchers in Artificial Intelligence in the 60s and 70s and was commercialized in the 80s. There have been many innovative applications in handling knowledge in business, management, science, engineering, medicine, and military. One of the latest comprehensive studies in the ABSTRACT

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