Cutting Edge Technologies and Microcomputer Applications for Developing Countries by Tien-tung Hsueh

Author:Tien-tung Hsueh [Hsueh, Tien-tung]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, Political Science, General
ISBN: 9780429722127
Google: ptmiDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 51860385
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-08T00:00:00+00:00

Table 1 Tools for Personal Computers

ESP Advisor from Expert Systems International, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, runs on MS-DOS 2.0 with 256 kilobytes of memory. $895.

ExpertOPS5 was implemented by Science Applications International Corporation for ExperTelligence of Santa Barbara, California. The original OPS5 was created at Carnegie Mellon University. The current version, said by the company to be "a complete implementation," operates on a Macintosh 512 kilobytes with ExperLisp and an add-on floppy or hard-disk drive. $195.

Expert-Ease was developed by Jeffrey Perrone & Associates, Inc., San Francisco. It is written in Pascal and runs on IBM PCs and compatibles, DEC, and Victor. Perrone says that the tool enables users to produce "models" of processes that require specialized knowledge or skills. Models have been developed for property purchasing decisions, trouble-shooting, logic design analyses, preliminary diagnoses of dental pain, assistance in building code compliance, expense claims and analyses, and disciplinary action recommendations. Perrone notes that some might not consider these to be "true" expert systems. $700.

Exeys from Exsys, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico, accommodates up to 400 rules with 128 kilobytes of memory or 3,000 rules with 640 kilobytes. The large version runs on MS-DOS 2.0. $200.

Insight 2 is a product from Level 5 Research, Melbourne, Florida, that runs on IBM, DEC, and Victor personal computers with 192 kilobytes of memory. $495.

KDS from KDS Corporation, Wilmette, Illinois, allows for up to 16,000 rules per knowledge module. The development system requires 256 kilobytes, MS-DOS 2.0. $795.

Knowledge Workbench is based on Silog, a proprietary extension of Prolog, and comes from Silogic Inc. of Los Angeles. The system incorporates not only a knowledge-base manager and inference engine, but a natural-language interface. It is being designed to run on MC68000-based personal computers.

M.1 and M.1a are Prolog versions of Teknowledge's microcomputer tool. Both operate under MS-DOS 2.0. The M.1a version is an evaluation subset of M.1 that contains the basic features and sufficient power to develop a proof-of-concept system. M.1: $10,000; M.1a: $2,000.

Last October Teknowledge announced the conversion of M.1 to C. Rule capacity has been expanded from 200 to 1,000. Performance has improved four or five times over the original Prolog product. The Version 2 development system is priced at $5,000 and the delivery version at $500 per copy.

MicroExpert is a product of McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York. It requires 128 kilobytes and MS-DOS 2.0. $50.

Micro KES is the personal computer version of KES. It is implemented in IQLisp for the IBM PC-XT with 640 kilobytes. Software A&E says that it is functionally equivalent to KES running on a Vax, but its performance is comparable to KES on a heavily loaded Vax. Development on a personal computer is therefore difficult, but execution is believed to be adequate. $4,000.

NaturalLink Technology Package is a 1985 release from Texas Instruments for its Professional Computer. It enables a programmer to construct English sentences that the underlying application program recognizes as commands. The ultimate user constructs an input sentence not by typing, but by selecting words and phrases from lists of choices displayed in menus.

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