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Building Expert Systems in Prolog

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  • © 1989

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Authors:
  1. Dennis Merritt

    1. Newton, USA

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Dennis Merritt
    Pages 1-13

  3. Using Prolog’s Inference Engine

    • Dennis Merritt
    Pages 15-31

  4. Backward Chaining with Uncertainty

    • Dennis Merritt
    Pages 33-54

  5. Explanation

    • Dennis Merritt
    Pages 55-72

  6. Forward Chaining

    • Dennis Merritt
    Pages 73-96

  7. Frames

    • Dennis Merritt
    Pages 97-112

  8. Integration

    • Dennis Merritt
    Pages 113-135

  9. Performance

    • Dennis Merritt
    Pages 137-161

  10. User Interface

    • Dennis Merritt
    Pages 163-178

  11. Two Hybrids

    • Dennis Merritt
    Pages 179-193

  12. Prototyping

    • Dennis Merritt
    Pages 195-206

  13. Rubik’s Cube

    • Dennis Merritt
    Pages 207-218

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 219-358
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About this book

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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  • Newton, USA

    Dennis Merritt

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