aarons@cvaxa.sussex.ac.UK.UUCP (07/10/87)
Hi,
I saw your enquiry about real time expert systems. A UK firm called
Systems Designers have used our Poplog system to implement a prototype
system called RESCU which can control production of detergent at ICI.
This was one of the UK Alvey Programme's "community club" projects,
i.e. a number of industrial firms potentially able to benefit from
the development helped to fund the prototype demonstration system.
They were so pleased with the result that the development work
is continuing.
They used Poplog on a VAX-730 connected to a variety of monitoring
devices displays, etc.
The system was written in POP-11 extended by a task specific rule
language for which they implemented an incremental compiler using
the POP-11 compiler-building tools.
There have been various relatively short reports on RESCU in newspapers, etc.,
as well as conference presentations, but I have not seen a full write-up.
If you want to know more about RESCU write to:
Mike Dulieu,
Systems Designers Plc,
Pembroke House,
Pembroke Broadway
Camberley, Surrey, GU15 3XD
England
Phone +44 276 686200
I hope this information is of some use.
Best wishes
Aaron Sloman,
U of Sussex, School of Cognitive Sciences, Brighton, BN1 9QN, England
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PS
Robin Popplestone at University of Amherst Mass (pop@edu.umass.cs) is
taking over academic distribution of Poplog in USA. He may have some
information about RESCU. He'll be at Amherst and SUN stands at AAAI
conference.