To provide the method and device for pattern collation for an expert system which can speedily take changes of the outside world in.
A process or means for pattern matching which compares conditions by a specific combination number in order from the latest combination of factors whose conditions are not compared yet and a taking-in process or means which stores current state information when fact information is inputted, takes the fact information, and instructs a condition comparison regarding the taken-in fact preferentially are repeatedly performed in order. Therefore, changes of the outside world can be taken in almost in real time and reflected on the pattern collation each time a pattern matching process as to one combination is performed.
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