The development of an expert system shell with a mixed knowledge representation, explicit control of reasoning and a truth maintenance system

This thesis concentrates on several important issues in expert system research, namely - representation of knowledge - control of reasoning - implementation of non-monotonic logics via truth maintenance systems. There are three parts to this thesis. PART1 covers the background research in the above mentioned topics. PART2 discusses the WISE system and the way in which research from PART1 was applied to the development of the WISE shell. PART3 considers the features of other expert system shells.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Computer Science

Year dc:date.issued

1988

Author dc:creator

• Jacobson, Guy

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• MacGregor, Ken

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15897

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/15897