Book review: BUILDING EXPERT SYSTEMS: COGNITIVE EMULATION by Philip E. Slatter (Ellis Horwood Limited)
Chris Westphal · ACM SIGART Bulletin · 1988
Building Expert Systems: Cognitive Emulation provides a good thorough overview of cognitive emulation and its relation to knowledge engineering techniques. Cognitive emulation as defined by Slatter refers to the strategy of expert system design that attempts to emulate human thinking. Although cognitive emulation appears to be inherent in knowledge engineering, it provides expert system practitioners with additional mechanisms to acquire and integrate the representation of knowledge constructs with the reasoning strategies employed by domain experts to effectively achieve a reliable system. The book assumes no prior exposure to cognitive psychology and therefore is not overloaded with jargon.