Knowledge-based statistical systems – An overview

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Janhunen, Olli

Affiliations: Central Statistical Office, P.O. Box 504, Annankatu 44, SF-00101 Helsinki, Finland

Abstract: Artificial intelligence and statistical expert systems have lately been on the agenda of almost every conference of statisticians. Statistics, where there are no artificial barriers between symbolic and algorithmic knowledge processing methods, might be the field to start developing a general theory of knowledge representation and of what could be termed meaning-cognition, two of the still missing pieces in the puzzle of artificial intelligence. The knowledge based applications are slowly finding their way to statistical product lines and knowledge processing architectures are penetrating the walls of traditional data processing environments.

DOI: 10.3233/SJU-1989-6403

Journal: Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 315-323, 1989