usc@gmdzi.UUCP (Uwe Schnepf) (12/07/89)
Because there have been several requests for the Babylon system, I would like to summarize some facts about it: Babylon is a hybrid expert system development environment which has been developed at the German National Reserach Center for Computer Science (GMD) in close cooperation with many other institutes and companies. It provides frames, production rules, Prolog and constraints to build expert systems. Babylon has been implemented in Common Lisp on different computers such as Symbolics, Sun (with very basic user interface only), Vax, IBM PC, Mac, TI Explorer etc. and is available with most of its source code. The current version (version 2.1) can be purchased from: VW-Gedas Pasqual-Str.11 1 Berlin 10 West Germany The price is: - for IBM PC and Mac: DM 200.- - for Vax, Sun, Symbolics etc.: DM 500.- English documentation will be available by the beginning of next year and will be published as a book: The AI workbench BABYLON - an open and portable development environment for expert systems. Some basic information on the system itself can also be obtained from the address above. Babylon is currently under redesign and will be available as a commercial product in spring 1991. It will be implemented in Common Lisp using X-windows and OSF/Motif. Uwe Schnepf ******************************************************************************* Uwe Schnepf e-mail: usc@gmdzi.uucp Expert Systems Research Group phone: +49-2241-142704 German National Research Center fax: +49-2241-142618 for Computer Science (GMD) F3.XPS Schloss Birlinghoven P.O. Box 1240 5205 Sankt Augustin 1 West Germany ******************************************************************************