WBD.TYM%OFFICE-2@sri-unix.UUCP (04/18/84)
From: William Daul <WBD.TYM@OFFICE-2>
>From "Defense Electronics" (April 1984):
Among the goals established for DARPA's expert systems technology
program are increased storage capacity and reasoning power that
can deal with 10K rules and provide 4K rule inferences per
second for stand-alone systems and 30K rules and 12K inferences
per second for multiple cooperating expert systems. The program,
part of DARPA's strategic computing initiative, is aimed at achieving
a framework to support battle management applications. The Air
Force's Rome Air Development Center will be issuing RFPs in nine
technical areas: explanation and presentation capability, ability
to handle uncertain and missing knowledge, fusion of information
from several sources, flexible control mechanisms, knowledge
acquisition and representation, expansion of knowledge capacity
and extent, enhanced inference capability, exploiting expert
systems on multiprocessor architectures, and development of
cooperative distributed expert systems. Multiple contract awards
are planned for each area, and one or two additional awards are
planned for complete system development.