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From: karen@mars.dgrc.doc.ca (Karen Bryden)
Subject: Re: Help Packaging AI for Management
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 94 17:56:04 GMT
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In article nvb@news.cerf.net, readingj@nic.cerf.net (John D. Reading) writes:
>I am working on an IRAD project for a defense contractor and
>have been instructed that I must use AI as a part of this project.

You *must* use AI as a part of your project?  That's scary.
I'm amazed that that sort of attitude still exists in
management.  The correct attitude is *Is it possible
to avoid using AI in the project.*  AI after all is an
expensive business which is full of pitfalls.

I am a member of a Canadian government working group on
AI standards, and one of the documents we have produced
is an opportunity evaluation document (next step is an AI
project management document).  I will see if I can lay
my hands on a machine readable version.  Meanwhile, I would
suggest that you beat your management over the head with
rolled up copies of ...
Slagle and Wick, "A method for Evaluating Candidate Expert
Systems Applications", AI Magazine, Winter 1988
Laufmann, "A Methodology for Evaluating Potential KBS
Applications", IEEE Expert, Dec 1990
Beckman, "Selecting Expert System Applications", AI Expert
Feb 1991

good luck!

Karen Bryden (karen.bryden@crc.doc.ca) |   The InterNet
Communications Research Centre         |   is Mightier
views expressed by me are personal     |   than the Pen*
* quotation adapted from "Richelieu", by Baron Lytton



