Equipment readiness codes expert system using Joshua for U.S. Army Combat Development

• Main Author: Chamberlin, Thomas Edward
• Other Authors: Kwak, Se-Hung
• Published: Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School 2013
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27725

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. === Expert systems have arrived as a popular productivity tool in business, industrial and managerial environments. Such tools should be extensively employed into the U.S. Army environments as well. In this thesis, an example of an expert system and its interface is presented. The expert system created, EQUIPMENT READINESS CODES EXPERT SYSTEM, enables a U.S. Army Combat Development analyst to utilize expert system technology. The advantages achieved are maintaining consistent and accurate Army Combat Development policy, reduction of the tedious, analytical tasks to the power of the machine, and the centralization of expert system maintenance and rule production. Furthermore, this expert system provides the much needed but often scarce expertise to ensure qualitative performance from nonexperts, provides efficiency and consistency of the experts, and even furnishes a training vehicle for others who need to understand the expert's thought process.