Abstract: From the perspective of decision making expert system theory, the paper researches the decision-making index system of sports events’ bidding. Production knowledge representation method is adopted to construct and implement the knowledge and rule database of sports competition bidding and decision-making based on the SQL Server of RDBM. Using the software engineering method, DMES is designed and developed based on production rule reasoning sporting events’ bidding and decision expert system, and is applied to the bidding of the Shanghai Tennis Masters Cup in order to test the designed functions and decision-making process of the system, which will provide references for the system to be applied to the bidding of other sports competitions. The system provides scientific basis for the government or enterprises in their bidding for sports competitions with reduced subjectivity and more scientific nature.

Key words: expert system, sports events, knowledge base, rule base, reasoning machine