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The author provides an updated review of expert systems and languages available to social scientists, emphasizing new programs and new implementations of well-established models. Practical recommendations are made for social scientists wishing to embark on this much-publicized but infrequently used type of research. Keywords: expert systems, artificial intelligence, hypertext.

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New Approaches to Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence Programming

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