ATHENA AIDE: An expert system for ATHENA code input model preparation

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1009-9_74· OSTI ID:6258174

Fink, R. K.; Callow, R. A.; Larson, T. K.; Ransom, V. H.

An expert system called the ATHENA AIDE that assists in the preparation of input models for the ATHENA thermal-hydraulics code has been developed by researchers at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. The ATHENA AIDE uses a menu driven graphics interface and rule-based and object-oriented programming techniques to assist users of the ATHENA code in performing the tasks involved in preparing the card image input files required to run ATHENA calculations. The ATHENA AIDE was developed and currently runs on single-user Xerox artificial intelligence workstations. Experience has shown that the intelligent modeling environment provided by the ATHENA AIDE expert system helps ease the modeling task by relieving the analyst of many mundane, repetitive, and error prone procedures involved in the construction of an input model. This reduces errors in the resulting models, helps promote standardized modeling practices, and allows models to be constructed more quickly than was previously possible. 5 refs., 4 figs.

• Research Organization: EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-76ID01570
• OSTI ID: 6258174
• Report Number(s): EGG-M-07587; CONF-870832-15; ON: DE89011151
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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