The state of knowledge-based systems
Frederick A. Hayes-Roth, Neil Jacobstein · Communications of the ACM · 1994
K nowledge-based systems (KBS) burst onto the computing scene in the 197Os, as a result of the seminal impressive results obtained by the DENDRAL system [5] for elucidating chemical structures and the MYCIN system that could diagnose infectious blood diseases and explain, in naturalistic English, its reasoning when requested [33].