Explanation modules, used in expert systems, is a function that enables the knowledge worker to understand why the information explained and concluded by the domain expert is viable. While consulting the information provided by the expert system, the explanation module elucidates why the expert system reached its conclusion. Explanation modules are mostly used in training seminars, as audiences are interested in learning how problems in the expert system are solved.
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“How strange a scene is this in which we are such shifting figures, pictures, shadows. The mystery of our existence—I have no faith in any attempted explanation of it. It is all a dark, unfathomed profound.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)