Your firm wants to develop IT Planning tools that can be used to support and promote the IT planning consulting services. You are responsible for building a tool (“Advisor”) that can help a customer plan a network, computing system, business applications, or a security system. Specifically, the company wants you to use your knowledge of IT and AI/Expert Systems to develop only one out of the following possible advisors:
– Advisor for recommending the right business application software
– Advisor for recommending the right local area network (wired) for a site
– Advisor for recommending the right wireless network for a site
– Advisor for recommending the right computing platforms for a site
– Any other advisor of interest to you (e.g., a building planner)
The Advisor is an expert system that suggests a plan based on a set of factors (questions). The factors may be the company size, type, applications being supported, physical site plan, etc. Potential users of the Advisor are corporate IT planners trying to build a small company. You should assume that the users do not know much about technology but know about their business and are literate about general IT principles. Your deliverable is a 2-3 pages design that shows:
• One para on the advisor with a list of key inputs and outputs
• One high level flow chart that describes the overall flow of the advisor
• Show the knowledgebase and the AI techniques used (e.g., the rules, fuzzy logic, case based reasoning, etc)
