WilliamDaulOAD/TYMSHARE/McDonnellDouglas@sri-unix.UUCP (04/18/84)
>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 10,000 rules
and provide 4,000 rule inferences per second for stand-alone systems and 30,000
rules and 12,000 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.