AI.ELLIE@MCC.COM (Ellie Huck) (10/17/86)
Please join the AI Group for the following talk October 22 at 11:00am in the Balcones 4th Floor Conference Room 4.302: KNOWLEDGE PROGRAMMING USING FUNCTIONAL REPRESENTATIONS Peter E. Hart Syntelligence SYNTEL is a novel knowledge representation language that provides traditional features of expert system shells within a pure functional programming paradigm. However, it differs sharply from existing functional languages in many ways, ranging from its ability to deal with uncertainty to its evaluation procedures. A very flexible user-interface facility, tightly integrated with the SYNTEL interpreter, gives the knowledge engineer full control over both form and content of the end-user system. SYNTEL executes in both LISP machine and IBM mainframe/workstation environments, and has been used to develop large knowledge bases dealing with the assessment of financial risks. This talk will present an overview of its architecture, as well as describe the real-world problems that motivated its development. October 22, 1986 11:00am Balcones Room 4.302 -------