;;; **************************************************************** ;;; Expert System Shells FAQ *************************************** ;;; **************************************************************** ;;; 1.18: ;;; 14-MAR-94 mk Updated DYNACLIPS entry in part 6 to reflect version 2. ;;; 18-MAR-94 mk Renamed part 6 of the AI FAQ to become this FAQ. Moved ;;; parts of the AI FAQ that were appropriate for this FAQ ;;; from the AI FAQ to this FAQ. ;;; 22-MAR-94 mk Added email addresses for Gensym. ;;; ;;; 1.19: ;;; 15-APR-94 mk Added entry on WindExS to [1-5]. ;;; 20-APR-94 mk Added OPS83 entry and updated RAL entry. ;;; 22-APR-94 mk Updated ftp information for ftp.gmd.de. ;;; 22-APR-94 mk Dynaclips v3 now available. ;;; 12-MAY-94 mk Added entry on RT-Expert to [1-5]. ;;; ;;; 1.20: ;;; 27-MAY-94 mk Added ACQUIRE to [1-6]. ;;; 12-JUN-94 mk Added FuzzyCLIPS entry to [1-5]. ;;; ;;; 1.21: ;;; 13-JUN-94 mk Updated MOBAL entry. ;;; ;;; 1.22: ;;; 15-JUN-94 mk Deleted Knowledge Craft entry; product discontinued. ;;; 27-JUN-94 mk Updated M.4 entry. ;;; 1-JUL-94 mk ART-IM entry replaced with ART*Enterprise entry. ;;; ;;; 1.23: ;;; 14-JUL-94 mk Deleted HyperX (Mac) product from Millenium software. [Mail ;;; to their address bounced and the phone number is that of a ;;; residence.] ;;; 21-JUL-94 mk Corrected phone in IntelliCorp. ;;; 22-JUL-94 mk Deleted Expert-Ease -- Expertech Ltd no longer exists. ;;; ;;; 1.24: ;;; 15-AUG-94 mk Added [1-7] associations. ;;; 8-SEP-94 mk Updated DYNACLIPS entry. ;;; ;;; 1.25: ;;; 22-SEP-94 mk Added Ignizio's book to [1-3]. ;;; 7-OCT-94 mk Added CLIPS home page. ;;; 12-OCT-94 mk Split [1-5] into two questions, with second one containing ;;; the CLIPS-related systems. Added wxCLIPS. ;;; ;;; 1.26: ;;; 14-OCT-94 mk Added WWW URL to HUGIN entry. ;;; 14-OCT-94 mk Added IJAES journal, including URL. ;;; 19-OCT-94 mk Updated entry on GURU. ;;; 20-OCT-94 mk Updated prices for books by Dennis Merritt of Amzi! Inc. ;;; 28-OCT-94 mk KBMS -- owner now Trinzic ;;; 10-NOV-94 mk Updated GBB ftp site. ;;; 11-NOV-94 mk Updated Knowledgeworks entry. ;;; 6-DEC-94 mk Added note about AI Expert's Expert Systems Resource Guide ;;; to [1-3]. ;;; 6-DEC-94 mk Replaced MacSMARTS entry with PowerSMARTS entry, thanks to ;;; Karl Schnelle. ;;; 6-DEC-94 mk Added Emerald Empower Procedural Advisor to [1-6] ... ;;; 6-DEC-94 mk Added XpertRule for Windows to [1-6] ... ;;; 6-DEC-94 mk Updated Haley Enterprises entries for Rete++ and Eclipse. ;;; Added Haley's Easy Reasoner and VBXpert. ;;; 7-DEC-94 mk Updated Ignizio book entry. ;;; 5-JAN-95 mk Removed 1st-class entry -- company seems to be out of ;;; business. ;;; ;;; 1.27: ;;; 26-JAN-95 mk Updated VP-Expert entry, thanks to Becky Thomas. ;;; ;;; 1.28: ;;; 9-MAR-95 mk Graham Spence sent mail to every company on the list, and ;;; reported all the "Return to Sender" responses. ;;; The following entries have been updated: Wordtech Systems. ;;; The following entries have been deleted: ExperTelligence ;;; (Exper-OPS5-Plus), Hyperpress Publishing (INTELLIGENT ;;; DEVELOPER), AI Technologies (MERCURY KBE), Human Intellect ;;; Systems (Instant-Expert Plus), and Peridom (COGNATE). ;;; 9-MAR-95 mk Updated entry on Dennis Merritt's book, Building Expert ;;; Systems, to include pointer to the source code. ;;; 9-MAR-95 mk Updated LEVEL5 entry. ;;; 9-MAR-95 mk Added MEM-1 entry. ;;; ;;; 1.29: ;;; 13-MAR-95 mk Added 800 number for Blackboard Technology Group. ;;; 28-MAR-95 mk Added WWW page for Inference Corp. ;;; ;;; 1.30: ;;; 26-APR-95 mk Added entry for Daxtron Labs MailBot. ;;; 26-APR-95 mk New email for Talarian. ;;; 3-MAY-95 mk Added AGENT_CLIPS entry. ;;; ;;; 1.31: ;;; 17-JUL-95 mk Inference Corp. has spun off the ART, ART-IM, ;;; ART*Enterprise tools division as a new and completely ;;; independent company, Brightware, Inc. The ART*Enterprise ;;; and CBR Express entries have now been split. ;;; 17-JUL-95 mk Updated Talarian entry. ;;; 21-JUL-95 mk Updated Gensym entry. ;;; ;;; ******************************** ;;; Old Info Removed from FAQ ****** ;;; ******************************** VP-EXPERT runs on the Apple Macintosh. For more information, write to Paperback Software, 2830 Ninth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710, or call 415-644-2116. GEST (Generic Expert System Tool) is a blackboard system internationally licensed by Georgia Tech for expert system applications. Available on Symbolics and SUN systems, GEST incorporates a number of knowledge representation techniques and inference engine gearing mechanisms to provide users a repertoire of knowledge structures to draw upon in developing application systems. A tutorial demonstration expert system is included with the GEST software and is included as a chapter in the documentation. The Symbolics version of GEST will be available at no cost via FTP on July 1, 1993. The SUN version license is $9,500 and includes all source code. For licensing information, please contact Susan Coryell at susan.coryell@gtri.gatech.edu, 404-894-5241 (office), 404-894-9081 (fax), or write to Susan Coryell, GTRI-CSITL, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332. Deleted; product discontinued. Knowledge Craft runs on minicomputers and Lisp machines. For more information, write to Carnegie Group, 5 PPG Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, call 800-284-3424 (412-642-6900), or fax 412-642-6906. HyperX runs on the Apple Macintosh. For more information, write to Millenium Software, 1970 S. Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651, or call 714-497-7439. See also MacWeek 3(5):6, January 31, 1989. [Mail to their address bounced and the phone number is that of a residence.] EXPERT-EASE runs on personal computers and is available from Expertech, Ltd. See PC User (103):94, March 29, 1989. [Company no longer exists.] 1ST-CLASS, 1ST-CLASS FUSION, and 1ST-CLASS HT run on personal computers. For more information, write to 1st-Class Expert Systems, Inc., 526 Boston Post Road, Suite 150, Wayland, MA 01778 or call 800-872-8812 (508-358-7722). See PC Tech Journal 7(4):111, April, 1989 and PC Week 6(20):23, May 22, 1989. [Company seems to be out of business.] Exper-OPS5-Plus runs on the Apple Macintosh and costs $495. For more information, write to ExperTelligence, 5638 Hollister, Suite 302, Goleta, CA 93117, call 800-828-0113 (except CA), 800-826-6144 (CA only), or 805-967-1797. See MacUser 4(12):134, December, 1988. [Return to sender] INTELLIGENT DEVELOPER runs on the Apple Macintosh and costs $395. For more information, write to Hyperpress Publishing, PO Box 8243, Foster City, CA 94404, or call 415-345-4620. See also MacUser 4(12):134, December, 1988. [Phone rings with no answer?] [Return to sender] MERCURY KBE. For more information, write to Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Inc., 40 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, NY 10532, call 800-333-1406 (914-347-6860), or fax 914-347-3182. [Return to sender] Instant-Expert Plus runs on the Apple Macintosh and costs $498. For more information, write to Human Intellect Systems, 1670 South Amphlett Blvd, Suite 326, San Mateo, CA 94402, or call 415-571-5939. See also MacUser 4(12):134, December, 1988. [Return to sender] COGNATE runs on the Apple Macintosh and costs $250. For more information, write to Peridom, PO Box 1812, Bowie, MD 20716, or call 301-390-9570. See also MacUser 4(12):134, December, 1988. [Phone rings with no answer?] LEVEL5 OBJECT runs on IBM PCs (Windows, $995), VAX/VMS, MVS and the Apple Macintosh ($695). LEVEL5 OBJECT is a robust object-oriented application development system with a tunable inference engine product. For more information, write to Information Builders, 503 Fifth Avenue, Indialantic, FL 32903, call 800-444-4303 (407-729-9046), fax 407-727-7615, or email to 76366.323@compuserve.com, techsup@l5r.com, or sales@l5r.com. Their Web server is located at the URL http://www.l5r.com/level5.html The New York R&D office is located at 1250 Broadway, New York, NY 10001, telephone 212-736-4433. Customer Support is 212-736-6130. See also MacUser 4(12):134, December, 1988, AI Expert 4(5):71, May, 1989, and MacUser 6(2):88, February, 1990. [Replaced with newer entry.] G2 is a real-time expert system shell that runs on workstations and personal computers. It has real-time temporal reasoning, with rules, procedures, and functions built around an object-oriented paradigm. One can interface, both locally and over a network (TCP/IP and DECnet), to other programs (C and ADA), control systems, and databases. G2 provides distributed computing and a multi-user client/server architecture. For more information, write to Gensym Corporation, 125 Cambridge Park Drive, Cambridge, MA 02140, call 617-547-2500/9606, fax 617-547-1962, or send email to service@gensym.com (Amber S. Driesman, Manager of Customer Support). The G2 mailing list (for customers only) is g2-users@gensym.com. [Replaced with newer entry.] GEST (Generic Expert System Tool) Version 4.0 is a flexible expert system shell applicable to a variety of problem domains. Its knowledge representation schemes include facts, frames, rules, and procedures. It supports forward and backward inferencing with multiple options for each and message handling for frame objects. There is a time system to support an event history and reverting back to a previous state. In addition, there is support for fuzzy logic and certainty factor maintenance. Features new to V4.0 include a blackboard architecture (single level and hierarchical) with a control module and knowledge sources. The user interface utilizes the Symbolics windowing system and is menu and mouse driven. GEST can be embedded in a user program (with or without the GEST user interface) by using a library of function calls. The printed reference manual includes a tutorial, table of contents, and thorough index. GEST runs only on Symbolics Lisp Machines, Genera 7.2. GEST users are expected to be familiar with Symbolics machines. Source and object files are available by anonymous ftp to ftp.gatech.edu in the (binary) file pub/ai/gest.tar.Z. Register your copy with John Gilmore, Georgia Tech Research Institute, ITL/CSITD 0800, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA, Internet: john.gilmore@gtri.gatech.edu. Send your name, address, organization, phone number, and Internet email address. To request a free printed copy of the GEST manual (not in the distribution file), please also contact John Gilmore. Users are free to produce as many copies of the GEST Reference Manual as they require without any restrictions. 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