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EMA-XPS - A Hybrid Graphic Expert System Shell
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Dec 9 01:16:58 1995
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 01:09:10 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: hans@wema11.elektro.uni-wuppertal.de (Hans Groschwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: EMA-XPS - A Hybrid Graphic Expert System Shell
Organization: University of Wuppertal
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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This is the announcement of the shell including an easy to install binary
version (A.OUT only).
Sorry for the length, but it uses OSF/Motif which ain't PD :(
(waiting for LessTif :)
EMA-XPS v2 - A Hybrid Graphic Expert System Shell
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EMA-XPS is a hybrid graphic expert system shell based on the
ASCII-oriented shell Babylon 2.2 of the German National
Research Center for Computer Sciences (GMD). In addition to
Babylon's AI-power (object oriented data representation,
forward and backward chained rules - collectable into sets,
prolog clauses, and constraint networks) a graphic interface
based on the X11 Window System and the OSF/Motif Widget
Library has been provided.
To avoid collisions of the two programming techniques (event
oriented vs. procedural style), two separate processes solve
these different jobs. The first process works event
oriented. It initializes an interprocess communication chan-
nel using a pseudo teletype (like xterm). In advance it
spawns a LISP-world containing the features of Babylon and
the extensions for interprocess communication.
In addition to the AI-features of Babylon it offers a task-
processor. For the input of knowledge specialized editors
have been realized. Additional support is granted by a
tracer. At session time a flexible and widely configurable
full-screen application and popup dialogs are available. The
user may choose to ask for explanations on the state of the
inference process. For information on how to use EMA-XPS at
run-time, an interactive help facility is provided.
Beginning with version 2.1 of EMA-XPS knowledge base files
of the shell ``babylon 3.1-beta'' from VW-GEDAS (which is no
more available) can be loaded, too. Those KBs are translated
into EMA-XPS style KBs at load-time.
Additionally to the source distribution
ftp://wema11.elektro.uni-wuppertal.de/pub/xps/emaxps21.tgz
currently static bound versions for Linux 1.2 (A.OUT)
ftp://wema11.elektro.uni-wuppertal.de/pub/xps/linuxbin.tgz
and SunOS 4.1 are available
ftp://wema11.elektro.uni-wuppertal.de/pub/xps/sunosbin.tgz
via anonymous ftp using Bruno Haible's CLISP interpreter.
SEE THE FILE COPYRIGHT!!! See the file INSTALL for hints and
requirements.
LSM file:
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Title: EMA-XPS v2 - A Hybrid Graphic Expert System Shell
Version: 2.1.0
Entered-date: 01DEC95
Description: EMA-XPS is a hybrid graphic expert system shell based on the ASCII-oriented shell
Babylon 2.2. In addition to Babylon's AI-power a graphic interface based on X11
and Motif has been provided (contains SRC and static bound BINs !).
Keywords: hybrid-expert-system-shell babylon
Author: hans@wema10.elektro.uni-wuppertal.de (Hans Groschwitz)
Maintained-by:
Primary-site: wema11.elektro.uni-wuppertal.de /pub
5M EMA-XPS-2.1.0.tar.gz
Alternate-site:
Original-site:
Platforms:
Copying-policy: GPL
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Email (September 1995):
hans@wema10.elektro.uni-wuppertal.de
SnailMail: Uni Wuppertal
FB 13 / EMA
Hans Groschwitz
D-42097 Wuppertal
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