george@rex.cs.tulane.edu (05/24/91)
Hello Netters,
I have to develop an Expert System for an application that
requires ~45 sets of very similar rules(200 per set). One of the
features of the system is that the rules will need periodic
updating(between 4-6 times a year). My questions to people who
have done development of this nature are-
1. What do you think would be a more suitable language for
writing this application- Prolog, C or C++. We are looking
for the maximum amount of machine independance possible
2. How easy would it be in C, to have a system that did the
inferencing after reading in the rules from a datafile. i.e.
it might be more advantageous to maintain the rules as data files
since they would have to be modified periodically and have the
backbone program to do the inferencing based on the data(rules) within
the data files.
3. Are there good references to Expert System development in C?
4. Would it be more advantageous to use an Expert System shell for
this problem rather than start from scratch?
I would appreciate any thoughts on these and any related matters.
Thanks in advance,
George Roy
email:george@rex.cs.tulane.edu
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