What is an intelligent system?
It addresses the need for a clear, unified definition of intelligent systems for researchers and engineers, but it is incremental as it builds on existing concepts without introducing new methods or data.
This paper tackles the problem of defining an intelligent system by providing a general description that integrates previous approaches and incorporates recent AI advances, resulting in a pragmatic framework for analyzing and building such systems in engineering contexts.
The concept of intelligent system has emerged in information technology as a type of system derived from successful applications of artificial intelligence. The goal of this paper is to give a general description of an intelligent system, which integrates previous approaches and takes into account recent advances in artificial intelligence. The paper describes an intelligent system in a generic way, identifying its main properties and functional components. The presented description follows a pragmatic approach to be used in an engineering context as a general framework to analyze and build intelligent systems. Its generality and its use is illustrated with real-world system examples and related with artificial intelligence methods.