Building Expert Systems in Prolog
Published on 24. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
XV, 358 pages
978-1-4613-8913-2 (ISBN)
Description
When I compare the books on expert systems in my library with the production expert systems I know of, I note that there are few good books on building expert systems in Prolog. Of course, the set of actual production systems is a little small for a valid statistical sample, at least at the time and place of this writing - here in Gennany, and in the first days of 1989. But there are at least some systems I have seen running in real life commercial and industrial environments, and not only at trade shows. I can observe the most impressive one in my immediate neighborhood. It is installed in the Telephone Shop of the Gennan Federal PTT near the Munich National Theater, and helps configure telephone systems and small PBXs for mostly private customers. It has a neat, graphical interface, and constructs and prices an individual telephone installation interactively before the very eyes of the customer. The hidden features of the system are even more impressive. It is part of an expert system network with a distributed knowledge base that will grow to about 150 installations in every Telephone Shop throughout Gennany. Each of them can be updated individually overnight via Teletex to present special offers or to adapt the selection process to the hardware supplies currently available at the local ware houses.
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Illustrations
XV, 358 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
575 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4613-8913-2 (9781461389132)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4613-8911-8
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Dennis Merritt
Building Expert Systems in Prolog
Book
06/1989
Springer
€85.55
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Content
1 Introduction.- 1.1 Expert Systems.- 1.2 Expert System Features.- 1.3 Sample Applications.- 1.4 Prolog.- 1.5 Assumptions.- 2 Using Prolog's Inference Engine.- 2.1 The Bird Identification System.- 2.2 User Interface.- 2.3 A Simple Shell.- 2.4 Summary.- 3 Backward Chaining with Uncertainty.- 3.1 Certainty Factors.- 3.2 MYCIN'S Certainty Factors.- 3.3 Rule Format.- 3.4 The Inference Engine.- 3.5 Making the Shell.- 3.6 English-like Rules.- 4 Explanation.- Value of Explanations to the User.- Value of Explanations to the Developer.- Types of Explanation.- 4.1 Explanation in Clam.- 4.2 Native Prolog Systems.- 5 Forward Chaining.- 5.1 Production Systems.- 5.2 Using Oops.- 5.3 Implementation.- 5.4 Explanations for Oops.- 5.5 Enhancements.- 5.6 Rule Selection.- 5.7 LEX.- 5.8 MEA.- 6 Frames.- 6.1 The Code.- 6.2 Data Structure.- 6.3 The Manipulation Predicates.- 6.4 Using Frames.- 6.5 Summary.- 7 Integration.- 7.1 Foops (Frames and Oops).- 7.2 Room Configuration.- 7.3 A Sample Run.- 7.4 Summary.- 8 Performance.- 8.1 Backward Chaining Indexes.- 8.2 Rete Match Algorithm.- 8.3 The Rete Graph Data Structures.- 8.4 Propagating Tokens.- 8.5 The Rule Compiler.- 8.6 Integration with Foops.- 8.7 Design Tradeoffs.- 9 User Interface.- 9.1 Object Oriented Window Interface.- 9.2 Developer's Interface to Windows.- 9.3 High-Level Window Implementation.- 9.4 Low-Level Window Implementation.- 10 Two Hybrids.- 10.1 CVGEN.- 10.2 The Knowledge Base.- 10.3 Inference Engine.- 10.4 Explanations.- 10.5 Environment.- 10.6 AIJMP.- 10.7 Summary.- 11 Prototyping.- 11.1 The Problem.- 11.2 The Sales Advisor Knowledge Base.- 11.3 The Inference Engine.- 11.4 User Interface.- 11.5 Summary.- 12 Rubik's Cube.- 12.1 The Problem.- 12.2 The Cube.- 12.3 Rotation.- 12.4 High Level Rules.- 12.5 Improving theState.- 12.6 The Search.- 12.7 More Heuristics.- 12.8 User Interface.- 12.9 On the Limits of Machines.- Appendix A Native.- Sample Dialog.- Birds Knowledge Base.- Native Shell.- Appendix B Clam.- Sample Dialog.- Car Knowledge Base.- Clam.- Ldruls.- Appendix C Oops.- Sample Dialog.- Room Knowledge Base.- Oops.- Appendix D Foops.- Sample Dialog.- Room Knowledge Base (Foops).- Foops.- Appendix E Rete-Foops.- Rete Compiler and Runtime.- Appendix F Windows.- Window Demonstration.- Windows (abbreviated).- Appendix G Rubik.- Rubik.- Rubdata.- References.- Predicate Index.