-- card: 8930 from stack: in -- bmap block id: 10978 -- flags: 4000 -- background id: 8367 -- name: Heuristics 1 -- part 1 (field) -- low flags: 01 -- high flags: 0002 -- rect: left=230 top=89 right=276 bottom=492 -- title width / last selected line: 0 -- icon id / first selected line: 0 / 0 -- text alignment: 0 -- font id: 3 -- text size: 14 -- style flags: 256 -- line height: 18 -- part name: -- part contents for background part 1 ----- text ----- Heuristics - Part 1 -- part contents for card part 1 ----- text ----- Databases in traditional programs contain only simple information about things, like how many items were sold, or a person's name. An expert system is concerned with another kind of information, consisting mostly of "rules of thumb" that have come to be known as heuristics.