Knowledge systems and Prolog

Book · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6450096

Walker, A; McCord, M; Sowa, J F; Wilson, W G

This book is about knowledge systems. It is about how to design them, how to use them, and how to program them in a language called Prolog. A knowledge system is a computer program that solves, or helps to solve, problems that would otherwise have to be handled by a human expert alone. A knowledge system may be an expert system, a program that understands English (or another natural language), or a combination of the two. In addition it may make good use of a database management system to store parts of its knowledge. Knowledge systems are used to give advise and to solve problems in many areas, such as business, science, technology, and law. The knowledge systems described in this book have been developed at IBM, and have been used for experiments in several subjects, including manufacturing planning, communication network management, evaluation of the ease of use of software packages, and machine translation from one natural language to another.

• OSTI ID: 6450096
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990210* -- Supercomputers-- (1987-1989)
ABSTRACTS
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
COMMUNICATIONS
COMPUTER CODES
COMPUTER NETWORKS
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
DOCUMENT TYPES
EXPERT SYSTEMS
KNOWLEDGE BASE
LEADING ABSTRACT
MANAGEMENT
NATURAL LANGUAGE
PROGRAMMING
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
PROLOG
REVIEWS
TRANSLATORS
USES