%A William J. Clancey
%J Artificial Intelligence
%T Notes on "Epistemology of a Rule-based Expert System"
%X In the 1970s, we conceived of a rule explanation as supplying the causal and social context that justifies a rule, an objective documentation for why a rule is correct. Today we would call such descriptions post-hoc design rationales, not proving the rules? correctness, but providing a means for later interpreting why the rule was written and facilitating later improvements.
%N 1-2
%K expert systems, rule-based, MYCIN, NEOMYCIN, explanation systems, design rationale
%P 191-204
%V 59
%D 1993
%L cogprints292