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Before probabilistic graphical models became mainstream, expert systems used certainty factors (Shortliffe & Buchanan). The book dedicates an entire chapter to this, explaining how MYCIN combined and propagated certainty through rules. This is a historically important and pedagogically useful section.

The fourth edition uses CLIPS as its primary programming language. Unlike textbooks that only show pseudocode, this one provides full, working CLIPS code for every major concept, from simple rule sets to a complete expert system for car diagnosis. The reader can actually run and modify the examples. The fourth edition uses CLIPS as its primary

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