Comparative Study of Forward and Backward Chaining in Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

An artificial intelligence system is capable of elucidating and representing knowledge along with storing and manipulating data. Knowledge could be a collection of facts and principles build up by human. It is the refined form of information. Knowledge representation is to represent knowledge in a manner that facilitates the power to draw conclusions from knowledge. Knowledge representation is a good approach as conventional procedural code is not the best way to use for solving complex problems. Frames, Semantic Nets, Systems Architecture, Rules, and Ontology are its techniques to represent knowledge. Forward and backward chaining are the two main methods of reasoning used in an inference engine. It is a very common approach for “expert systems”, business and systems. This paper focus on the concept of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence and the elaborating the comparison of forward and backward chaining.