Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!dsac.dla.mil!ntm1169 From: ntm1169@dsac.dla.mil (Mott Given) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: CLIPS Message-ID: <2382@dsac.dla.mil> Date: 15 Jan 91 16:45:13 GMT References: <4181@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus Lines: 71 From article <4181@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, by peterhi@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Peter Hickman): > What is the latest version of CLIPS? I ask this because I made come across the Version 4.2 is the latest one currently available, but version 5.0 is due to be shipped any day now. I have included some information below which was posted earlier about it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From news Fri Sep 14 08:36:17 1990 From: andy@gistdev.gist.com (Andy Warinner) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: CLIPS OR NEXPERT Message-ID: <1006@gistdev.gist.com> Date: 13 Sep 90 16:51:34 GMT References: <4601@turquoise.UUCP> <1990Sep12.193220.17036@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Organization: Global Information Systems Technology Inc., Savoy, IL Lines: 50 If anyone is interested in CLIPS, you might consider waiting a little bit. NASA has come out with CLIPS v5.0 with lots of goodies. CLIPS Object-Oriented Language (COOL) - "The features of COOL include: classes with multiple inheritance, single and multi-valued slots (with slot daemons), instances with encapsulation, and message-passing (with before, after, primary, and around message-handlers)." Deffunctions - "deffunctions may be used to new capabilities to CLIPS without having to write new code in C and recompile CLIPS." Generic functions - "Generic functions can be used to overload functions in a manner similar to, but much more powerful than, languages such as ADA and C++." Global Variables Integer Data Type Support Conflict Resolution Strategies and Salience Extensions - "Seven conflict resolution strategies are provided including depth, breadth, lex, mea, simplicity, complexity, and random. ... Salience values can also be dynamically evaluated each time a new activation is added to the agenda..." Deftemplate Field Checking Incremental Reset Truth Maintenance - "Facts can be made logically dependent upon the existence or nonexistence of other facts." (quoted from CLIPS v5.0 announcement) NASA, USAF, and their contractors can get CLIPS by calling the CLIPS Help Desk at (713) 280-2233 (Mon - Fri). CLIPS v5.0 will be available to the general public "by early 1991" (from the v5.0 announcement). I heard from reliable sources that it would be January 1991. The general public can obtain CLIPS from COSMIC (for $350): COSMIC 382 E. Broad St. Athens, GA 30602 (404) 542-3265 Andrew Warinner | "Semper ubi sub ubi" - J. Caesar GIST, Inc. | Standard | EMAIL: andy@gistdev.gist.com disclaimer... | {uunet, uiucuxc}!gistdev!andy ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Mott Given @ Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, DSAC-TMP, Bldg. 27-1, P.O. Box 1605, Columbus, OH 43216-5002 INTERNET: mgiven@dsac.dla.mil UUCP: ...{osu-cis}!dsac!mgiven Phone: 614-238-9431 AUTOVON: 850-9431 FAX: 614-238-9928 I speak for myself