banda@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Carolyn P. Banda) (04/13/91)
Archive-name: ai/shell/gbb/1991-04-08 Archive-directory: dime.cs.umass.edu:/gbb/v-120/ [128.119.40.244] Original-posting-by: banda@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Carolyn P. Banda) Original-subject: summary of responses re expert system bb shells Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) Here are the responses to my query for information on public domain expert systems shells, especially ones with a blackboard capability. Thanks to those people who responded! Carolyn Banda ------------------------------------------------------------- - From: hlaasri@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr (3/18/91) To: Carolyn Banda GatorMail-Q Re: seeking public domain L Hi, When I was a PhD student, I co-developed a blackboard-based shell called ATOME. The latter runs under Symbolics and is compatible with all common lisp based environments. It integrates sophisticated explanation mechanisms and graphical tools. At present, it's used both in research labs and in some industries. It served as a basis for many thesises in France. Unfortunately, the manual is in French. Tough, there are some articles in English about ATOME (see Blackboard Architectures and Applications, Jagganathan et al. (editors), Academic Press, 1989). If you need more technical information about the system, there is a French post-doc girl at NASA who used it when she was a PhD student in France. Currently, she's working with Guy Boy. Here is here Email: mathe@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov. I think that she came with a version with here in your labs. Following is the person to contact to ask for the system (My PhD adviser): Prof. Jean-Paul Haton CRIN/INRIA-Lorraine B.P. 239 54506 Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy Cedex (France) Email: jph@loria.crin.fr Regards, Hassan Laasri Alcatel Alsthom Recherche Advanced Computing Systems Dept. Route de Nozay 91460 Marcoussis, France Email: hlaasri@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr ------------------------------------------------------------- --- From: mark@huey.gatech.edu (3/13/91) To: Carolyn Banda GatorMail-Q public e.s. shell Carolyn, In response to your inquiry about a public domain Expert System shell written in LISP... You mention blackboards and a Symbolics platform. Well University of Massachusetts AI group has created UMASS GBB. which is a blackboarding enviorment written in LISP. Extension files are provided so it may be compiled on a SUN, Symbolics, TI Explorer, Macintosh. Also included is OPS5 which could be handy to write your E.S. to get GBB ftp to dime.cs.umass.edu and grab everything under gbb. unfortunately support is non-existent and the documentation can be ftp'ed as well but is lacking. good luck.... just email me if you need any more info. Mark P. Ouellette Laboratory for Intelligent Design Systems (LIDS) Georgia Institute of Technology mark@huey.gatech.edu -- comp.archives file verification dime.cs.umass.edu total 1247 drwxr-xr-x 6 9218 ftp 1024 Oct 10 1990 distribution -rw-rw-rw- 1 9218 ftp 13905 Sep 19 1988 installation.plaintext -rw-r--r-- 1 9218 ftp 1252353 Jul 3 1990 reference-manual.ps found gbb ok dime.cs.umass.edu:/gbb/v-120/