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, and presents some common categories. The presented description follows a practical approach to be used by system engineers. Its generality and its use is illustrated with real-world system examples and related with artificial intelligence methods.

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什么是智能系统？

智能系统的概念是作为人工智能成功应用衍生的一种系统，在信息技术中出现。本文的目标是给出一个智能系统的一般描述，它集成了以前的方法并考虑了人工智能的最新进展。本文以通用的方式描述了一个智能系统，确定了它的主要属性和功能组件，并提出了一些常见的类别。所呈现的描述遵循供系统工程师使用的实用方法。它的一般性和用途通过现实世界的系统示例进行说明，并与人工智能方法相关。