Publications / 1987 Proceedings of the 4th ISARC, Haifa, Israel

Expert Systems Interpreting Collective Agreements in the Building Industry

Esa Jolkkonen, Jouni Salokivi
Pages 811-825 (1987 Proceedings of the 4th ISARC, Haifa, Israel, ISSN 2413-5844)
Abstract:

This paper presents an expert system project, the main aim of which was to obtain information on the viability of the present microcomputer-based expert system shells in interpreting a collective agreement of the building industry in Finland. The same expert system was built using two different shells, Guru and Insight 2+, in order to compare them and to study their specific features. An important aspect of the project was the methodology of transferring and expert system developed with one shell to another shell. The domain of sickness pay as a part of the collective agreement was chosen to be an appropriate area for an expert system since the interpretation of the agreement is complicated by many exceptions and special cases. It is also a domain which constantly raises many problems in the building industry as disputes over proper pay arise both on-site and in the main office.

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