WURST@UCONNVM.BITNET (12/08/87)
I am a graduate student in Computer Science, and I am planning
to do an independent study project next semester in Expert Systems.
My project, as it stands now, will be to build a simple expert system
for use in a microbiology lab. I plan to write the system twice,
once in LISP, and once in PROLOG, and then compare the relative
merits of each language for expert systems.
Can anyone suggest some references to get me started? This
will be my first expert system, and I am interested in literature
on how to go about building one. I would like to see information
on designing expert systems in general, how to go about getting
the information from the domain expert, and any information on
building expert systems in LISP and PROLOG in particular. Any
help you can give me would be greatly appreciated.
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Karl R. Wurst
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Connecticut
BITNET: WURST@UCONNVM
'Things fall apart. It's scientific' - David Byrnedwt@EECS.UMICH.EDU (David West) (12/15/87)
In article <8712100816.AA09612@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> WURST@UCONNVM.BITNET writes: > > I am a graduate student in Computer Science [...] > I plan to write the system twice, > once in LISP, and once in PROLOG, and then compare the relative > merits of each language for expert systems. > Can anyone suggest some references to get me started? Unless you are already proficient in both languages, what you are likely to end up comparing is your relative understanding of the two languages. For this reason I think that your first reference to read should be Richard O'Keefe's article "Prolog and LISP Compared?" in SIGPLAN Notices, about 1984. This is a critique of an article by someone else in which the someone else fell into precisely the above-mentioned trap. (That title and date are approximate, but close.) David West dwt@zippy.eecs.umich.edu