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Ripple-Down Rules: The Alternative to Machine Learning
by 作者: Paul Compton and by 作者: eong Ho Kang
Publisher Finelybook 出版社: Chapman and Hall/CRC; 1st edition (May 31,2021)
Language 语言: English
pages 页数: 196 pages
ISBN-10 书号: 0367647664
ISBN-13 书号: 9780367647667
Book Description
“In this era of deep learning,where is our deeper understanding of AI? The answer is,here,in this book. Compton and Kang’s ideas are a ‘must-read’ for anyone working with AI. Based on examples of real-world applications,they show us a better way to use AI. If your AI models are confusing to understand and hard to maintain,then this book is for you.”
Tim Menzies,Professor,North Carolina State University
Machine learning algorithms hold extraordinary promise,but the reality is that their success depends entirely on the suitability of the data available. This book is about Ripple-Down Rules (RDR),an alternative manual technique for rapidly building AI systems. With a human in the loop,RDR is much better able to deal with the limitations of the data.
Ripple-Down Rules: The Alternative to Machine Learning starts by 作者: reviewing the problems with data quality and the problems with conventional approaches to incorporating expert human knowledge into AI systems. It suggests that problems with knowledge acquisition arise because of mistaken philosophical assumptions about knowledge. It argues people never really explain how they reach a conclusion,rather they justify their conclusion by 作者: differentiating between cases in a context. RDR is based on this more situated understanding of knowledge. The central features of a RDR approach are explained,and detailed worked examples are presented for different types of RDR,based on freely available software developed for this book. The examples ensure developers have a clear idea of the simple yet counter-intuitive RDR algorithms to easily build their own RDR systems.
It has been proven in industrial applications that it takes only a minute or two per rule to build RDR systems with perhaps thousands of rules. The industrial uses of RDR have ranged from medical diagnosis through data cleansing to chatbots in cars. RDR can be used on its own or to improve the performance of machine learning or other methods
