holt@auk.cs.athabascau.ca (Peter D Holt) (11/29/90)
I am looking for a public domain backward chaining inference engine that can be called from C or C++. C or C++ Source preferred. Please reply by email.
cpshelle@logos.waterloo.edu (cameron shelley) (02/19/91)
The following basically represents the results of my posting (some
time ago) about pd expert system shells. I have not tried out any
of the shells listed (having been otherwise occupied) so I can't
offer any opinions on them. I'm sure many would appreciate comments
from anyone out 'there' who has used any of the packages.
Thanks again to the respondants!
Cam
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While not exactly an expert system shell, I have a package called
BELIEF which manipulates probabilistic and belief function graphical
models. In a loose sense it is an expert system shell, as it solves
many of the same problems. On the other hand, the user interface is
still relatively primitive (I'm working out of a statistics, not CS
department and get credit for theoretical results and not slick
interfaces). It is availble via anonymous ftp from hustat.harvard.edu
and belgica.stat.washington.edu. It is available via mail from me.
Russell Almond
U.Washington, Department of Statistics
almond@stat.washington.edu
(206) 543-4302
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My name is Roberto Bozac, and I have information regarding a free expert system
for the PC.
I found it through FTP at 'garbo.uwasa.fi' (the University of Vassa, Finland).
This server is loaded with PC/MAC/etc. software (shareware, freeware, demos).
The expert system is called Experto (written in Italy, but in English!). It
is located in the direectory /pc/science. The files are experto.zoo (235K)
and xprto.zip (3K). In order to decompress them, you will need PKZIP and ZOO.
These archivers are located in /pc/arcers under the names pkz110eu.exe (big)
and zoo201.exe (88K). These are self-extracting archiver packages.
A list of currently avaiable pc files on the server can be found in the /pc
directory (file name INDEX).
You should really check out 'garbo.uwasa.fi', they have lots of interesting
files for all types of machines.
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Sorry I can not help you here much except to suggest you try
contacting the University of Georgia (USA) and their COSMOS system to
see if any public domain AI shells are listed there. However, should
you get together a list of these I would very much like a copy, or a
posting to the net.
By the way, the monitor of comp.ai.shell did send me a list of shell
reviews - the monitor's query about shells had an apparently very low
response.
Thank you,
Mike Koopman <mgkst1@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
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