EXPIM: a knowledge-based expert system for production/inventory modelling

KBLS: A prototype knowledge-based system for the selection of lot-sizing models

“…These areas are project planning, cell control, cell simulation, material handling, robotic assembly, distribution planning, electric power scheduling, office scheduling, man-power scheduling, timber harvest scheduling, naval logistics, train scheduling and aerospace applications. A knowledge-based system for production-inventory modeling was introduced by Parlar (1989). With this system, one could identify and recommend the established production-inventory models through the expert system shell.…”

Towards the development of an intelligent inventory management system

“…Sinha et al (1989) presented a conceptual design of an inventory expert system but did not build an actual model base. The knowledge base in Parlar's (1989) system is only a collection of inventory bibliography to help users to find inventory models in papers and books. The inventory models built in both of the systems of Hosseini et al (1988) and Luxhoj et al (1993) were limited to models for constant or stochastic demand.…”

“…The current applications of expert systems have demonstrated quite successful results in terms of better decision making (Bramer, 1988;Land and Hickman, 1993;Buchanan, 1986). In order to reap the benefits of this technology some inventory expert systems have been developed since 1988, to help manage large-scale inventories (Sinha et al, 1989;Parlar, 1989;Hosseini et al, 1988;Luxhoj et al, 1993). These efforts have engendered widespread hopes of effective computer solutions to inventory problems.…”

“…First, the knowledge bases of these systems were not fully or properly structured. There were no inventory models included in Sinha et al's (1989) conceptual system and Parlar's (1989) system. Sinha et al (1989) presented a conceptual design of an inventory expert system but did not build an actual model base.…”