Teaching expert systems development with Kafka

This paper presents an educational project conducted at the Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communication of the Milano-Bicocca University in collaboration with secondary schools of Milan and its province. The project was devoted involving students potentially interested in Computer Science to understand how to develop knowledge based systems and how this technology could be useful for future jobs. The KAFKA framework was used as the didactic platform to learn how recognizing, correlating and using various kinds of knowledge involved in complex decision-making activities. Another aspect of the project was stimulating students to work cooperatively to the problem solution, reproducing in this way the typical team-oriented management of decision making processes within organizations