摘要：From the first applications to this day, expert systems have obtained remarkable results in many areas, by using knowledge extracted and transferred from human experts. The main reason behind the advent of expert systems was the potential to provide recommendations to a large number of users. In today’s world, the spread of the Internet and web applications generated an exponential growth of the quantity of information that needs to be processed by an increasing number of users. Under these circumstances emerged the convergence of web technologies with expert systems, resulting in the category of web based expert systems. The potential of traditional expert systems was harnessed by using web technologies, offering new ways of disseminating expertise and knowledge to a mass audience. In this paper we will first review base concepts and features of traditional expert systems and then point out the benefits brought by the development and the use of web based expert systems.
