This work originated in a workshop organized in 1983 on behalf of the Social Science Research Council, concerned with the contribution of the social sciences to the development and understanding of intelligent knowledge-based systems. The collection of essays, by contributors who represent a variety of viewpoints deriving from the different aspects of the intelligent systems enterprise with which they are concerned, looks at the development, application and implications of intelligent systems. The development of such systems is discussed, with particular reference to those areas where the contributions of social scientists may assist progress. Topics such as the role of the human expert, how best to represent knowledge, the interface between the user and the machine and the organizational context in which intelligent systems are deployed are addressed. Applications of intelligent systems in medicine and education and their potential as consumer products are described. Implications of the intelligent systems enterprise for sociology and for social anthropological study are also considered.
The work should be of interest to the generalist reader (as it does not deal with the technical aspects of intelligent systems), computer scientists, social scientists and students of computer science and social science.
- ISBN10 0198537360
- ISBN13 9780198537366
- Publish Date January 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 June 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English