              From the Knowledge Systems Laboratory
           of the National Research Council of Canada

                        FuzzyCLIPS 6.02


FuzzyCLIPS (1) is an extended version of the CLIPS (2) rule-based shell
for representing and manipulating fuzzy facts and rules. In addition to
the CLIPS functionality, FuzzyCLIPS can deal with exact, fuzzy (or
inexact), and combined reasoning, allowing fuzzy and normal terms to
be freely mixed in the rules and facts of an expert system. The
system uses two basic inexact concepts, fuzziness and uncertainty.

   (1) Compatible with CLIPS version 6.02
   (2) CLIPS was developed by the Artificial Intelligence Section,
       Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, NASA and is available from
       COSMIC, The University of Georgia,
       382 Broad Street,
       Athens, GA 30602, USA.

FuzzyCLIPS is available via WWW (the World Wide Web). It can be
accessed indirectly by accessing the Knowledge Systems Lab Server
using the URL:

        http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/home_page.html

or more directly by using the URL:

        http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/fuzzy/fuzzy.html

Versions are available for unix systems, Macintosh systems and PC
systems. There is no cost for the software, but please read the terms
for use in the FuzzyCLIPS documentation or in the WWW FuzzyCLIPS pages.


For further information or queries about FuzzyCLIPS please direct
messages to:

        fzclips@ai.iit.nrc.ca


The World Wide Web is a hypermedia document that spans the Internet.
If you are not familiar with the Web, you can get acquainted by
obtaining a free copy of Mosaic from the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications. For example, if you have a Sun:

        unix> ftp ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu

        Name: anonymous
        Password: <your e-mail address>

        ftp> cd Mosaic/Mosaic-binaries
        ftp> binary
        ftp> get Mosaic-sun.Z
        ftp> bye

        unix> uncompress Mosaic-sun.Z
        unix> Mosaic-sun

Like ftp (file transfer protocol), the World Wide Web is based on a
protocol for the exchange of files over the Internet. The protocol is
known as http (hypertext transfer protocol). This new protocol subsumes
older protocols, such as ftp and gopher. Mosaic uses http to
provide a hypermedia interface (text, hypertext, graphics, movies,
audio) to the Internet.

The Knowledge Systems Laboratory of the National Research Council
of Canada has set up a World Wide Web Server (analogous to an
ftp server) that delivers information relevant to AI researchers,
especially machine learning researchers.

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