A Review of the Advantages of Knowledge Based System over the Conventional Computer Based Information Systems

Abstract

A knowledge-based system (KBS) is a program
that absorbs and uses knowledge from a different source,
learning, and other activities. Since, its large significance within
the space of AI, it will assist and support human decision making
with solving problems, notably complex problems. Decision
making is based on the data and information that resides in their
database. KBS has the flexibility to form sense of the
information that is processed. The early knowledge-based
systems were primarily expert systems, this term is usually used
interchangeably with expert systems, though there is distinction.
The distinction is in visible purpose and manner of description
regarding the system. A knowledge-based system is consisting of
a knowledge base and an interface engine. The knowledge base
functions can act as the knowledge repository and the also the
interface engine is there as the search engine.