davel@cbnewsl.att.com (David Loewenstern) (01/05/91)
Has anyone heard of an expert system shell/development environment
called Mercury, by Artificial Intelligence Technologies? What are
your impressions of either the product or the company?
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{backbone!}att!whutt!davel which is davel@whutt.att.comjgronosk@x102c.harris-atd.com (gronosky jeffrey 33064) (01/07/91)
In article <1991Jan5.040204.4600@cbnewsl.att.com> davel@cbnewsl.att.com (David Loewenstern) writes: > >Has anyone heard of an expert system shell/development environment >called Mercury, by Artificial Intelligence Technologies? > I have heard of it through another representative in our company. > >What are your impressions of either the product or the company? > He said that the demonstration of the Mercury system he saw was based solely on the fact that they thought they were better then Gensym's G2 Expert System. He was disappointed that their demonstration was based on "Gensym Bashing" rather than the capabilities of their system. As a result he attended a G2 training course to better understand the capabilities of G2. Questions for you. We are currently using Gensym's G2 Expert System. Due to time constraints were not able to fully research the market for other competators products. Have you or anyone else compared compared Gensym G2 or R*Time expert systems with Mercury's expert system shell? If so what were your thoughts/feelings? I'm also interested in any responses that you receive which compare the previoulsly mentioned systems or mention any other systems that offer the similar functionality. Good luck, Jeff Gronosky jgronosk@x102c.ess.harris.com
mikeb@wdl31.wdl.loral.com (Michael H Bender) (01/08/91)
With regard to Mercury and Gensym -- I have used neither so obviously I am an expert and can thrown my opinion in (who knows -- it may even be worth 2 cents!). In the past I have looked at both systems (superficially) And here is the conclusion I arrived at at the time: They are designed for different classes of applications. Gensym seems to be oriented towards model-based reasoning whereas Mercury is a more typical expert-system shell. In other words, if I had to build a knowledge-based system based on a physical/mechanical system, I would definitely use Gensym. However if I had to build an inferencing system that used frames, forward chaining, and backward chaining, I would look towards Mercury first. Mike Bender