hepner@cod.NOSC.MIL (Thomas A. Hepner) (01/20/89)
I was wondering if anyone out there has had an opportunity to use MAGELLAN, the AI expert systems shell by Emerald technologies, and if so what your impressions of the program were. I am think of getting the program to develop an Expert system in conjuction with my Masters Thesis and would prefer to have a nice, fairly usable pre-built shell, rather than have to write my own shell and use the PD version of XLISP 2.0. Thanks for any info and experiences you have with this product. (oh, if there is something wrong or that offends someone about this posting, let me know, its my first attempt at obtaining info on the net :-). email address is hepner@cod|nosc.mil
arxt@tank.uchicago.edu (patrick palmer) (01/20/89)
In article <1368@cod.NOSC.MIL> hepner@cod.NOSC.MIL (Thomas A. Hepner) writes: >I was wondering if anyone out there has had an opportunity to use MAGELLAN, the >AI expert systems shell by Emerald technologies, and if so what your impressions >of the program were.... I wrote them a brief letter a few months ago with some simple questions such as how many rules it could use, how it handled uncertainty, and whether it could call other progarms to generate numbers to be used in decisions. They did not reply, which suggests to me that it is a toy with no one around to support it. ON the other hand I wrote to EXSYS last year about their shell for PC's and got a detailed answer which included a statment that their Eupopean distributors had suggested an A2000 version which they might produce within the year. They have apparently not produced it yet though. I think pressure from the European market might be our best hope for getting some expert system shells for the Amiga. Pat Palmer (email: ppalmer@oddjob.uchicago.edu)