An Inference Engine Is

question 24

Multiple Choice

An inference engine is

• A) a strategy for searching the rule base in case-based reasoning.
• B) the programming environment of an expert system.
• C) a method of organizing expert system knowledge into chunks.
• D) a strategy used to search through the rule base in an expert system by forward chaining or backward chaining.

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