An Inference Engine Is

question 59

Multiple Choice

An inference engine is:

• A) a data mining strategy used by intelligent agents.
• B) the programming environment of an expert system.
• C) a method of organizing expert system knowledge into chunks.
• D) a set of rules used to model human knowledge in an expert system.
• E) a strategy used to search through the rule base in an expert system.

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Definitions:

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Fair Value

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