ACCESS: a Communicating and Cooperating Expert-Systems System. Final report, 30 June 1987-31 January 1988

Technical Report · Sun Jan 31 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:6821371

Cottman, B H; Paslay, R C

The primary focus of Phase I was to prototype a development environment, ACCESS, for A Communicating and Cooperating Expert Systems System. More generally, this work explored the question of what capabilities were needed in a development environment for embedding distributed knowledge-based systems applications on personal computer or work-station class platforms. The stated goal of the Phase I research and development effort was to investigate and implement a software environment for the realization of cooperating knowledge sources on personal computers. This system was to be Lisp-based, distributed processing was to be facilitated by message passing using TCP/IP, control was to be accomplished by meta-level objects and a variety of features were to be provided to aid developers in building such systems. Underlying these goals was the assumption that the tools needed to support such an effort, mainly Common Lisp, Portable Common Loops and TCP/IP, were adequate to do so. During the course of this work, Symbiotics found several shortcomings in these software tools and identified a need for higher-level tools to facilitate distributed-processing development. This report documents that work and the results of the Phase I effort.

• Research Organization: Symbiotics, Inc., Cambridge, MA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6821371
• Report Number(s): AD-A-195395/9/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990210* -- Supercomputers-- (1987-1989)
990300 -- Information Handling
DATA PROCESSING
DISTRIBUTED DATA PROCESSING
DOCUMENT TYPES
EQUIPMENT
EXPERT SYSTEMS
PARALLEL PROCESSING
PORTABLE EQUIPMENT
PROCESSING
PROGRAMMING
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
PROGRESS REPORT