davy@ecn-ee.UUCP (01/22/84)
#N:ecn-ee:15300003:000:724 ecn-ee!davy Jan 21 21:23:00 1984 Hello, Perhaps this is a stupid question, perhaps not. A friend of mine would like to know if there are presently any "expert" systems or other AI programs which deal with machine architecture design. To be slightly more specific, it should be able to take a set of criteria like "what we want the machine to do", and a database which contains a list of components and what they can do. From this, it should produce a "build the machine this way, with these components" type output. Is there anything like this? Anything remotely resembling it? Anything which deals with even one aspect of it? Pointers to any literature would be appreciated. --Dave Curry eevax.davy@purdue (ARPA) decvax!pur-ee!davy (UUCP)
lorne@uokvax.UUCP (01/26/84)
#R:ecn-ee:15300003:uokvax:900009:000:226 uokvax!lorne Jan 24 15:14:00 1984 Hows this for real vague, I read somthing a while back about a system that was helping DEC configure systems that involve VAX's. Maybe someone from DEC could help us out on just what the name of the program was. Lorne
nielsen@uiucdcs.UUCP (nielsen ) (01/27/84)
#R:ecn-ee:15300003:uiucdcs:32300016:000:391 uiucdcs!nielsen Jan 26 11:24:00 1984 There is an expert system which DEC uses for configuring VAX systems called R1 which grew out of the OPS family of expert systems. An excellent reference on this work, and on expert systems in general, is <Building Expert Systems> by Hayes-Roth et. al. This should be available in your library and might be in some bookstores. Paul Nielsen {ihnp4, pur-ee, parsec}!uiucdcs!nielsen
israel@umcp-cs.UUCP (01/27/84)
I read somthing a while back about a system that was helping DEC configure systems that involve VAX's. Maybe someone from DEC could help us out on just what the name of the program was. I'm not from DEC, but I can answer the question. The program is called 'r1'. It is a production rule system written in OPS5 by John McDermott at Carnegie-Mellon University. A reference should be pretty easy to find by looking in IJCAI or AAAI proceedings of the past couple of years. -- Bruce Israel University of Maryland, Computer Science {rlgvax,seismo}!umcp-cs!israel (Usenet) israel.umcp-cs@CSNet-Relay (Arpanet)
darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer) (01/27/84)
The DEC VAX configurator is called R1, origin at CMU in OPS-5, though continued maintenence and enhancements now are in house at DEC. -- Darrel J. Van Buer, PhD System Development Corp. 2500 Colorado Ave Santa Monica, CA 90406 (213)820-4111 x5449 ...{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdccsu3,trw-unix}!sdcrdcf!darrelj VANBUER@USC-ECL.ARPA
marcel@uiucdcs.UUCP (marcel ) (02/04/84)
#R:ecn-ee:15300003:uiucdcs:32300019:000:496 uiucdcs!marcel Feb 3 17:12:00 1984 Ed Snow, from CS at Carnegie-Mellon; Thompson, from EE at Carnegie-Mellon, etc, working for Mario Barbacci and Dan Siewiorek, built a system that was not explicitly AI, but was CAD. It was reputedly capable of mapping functional descriptions into hardware designs through a number of architectural levels. I think they used the ISPS description language. The system might be valuable for comparison. Marcel Schoppers U of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign {pur-ee|ihnp4}!uiucdcs!marcel