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Subject: Re: ISIS
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 16:52:39 EST
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ISIS is a factory scheduling KBS developed by Mark Fox and Stephen Smith
at the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of the Robotics Institute at CMU,
in conjunction with Westinghouse.  It constructs job-shop schedules,
monitors performance and avoids production bottlenecks, by evaluating and
resolving conflicting factors such as productivity goals, resource 
requirements and machine preferences.  

References:

Fox and Smith, "ISIS -- a KBS for factory scheduling", Expert Systems, v. 1,
n. 1, July 1984, pp. 25-49.

Fox, Smith, et al, "ISIS: A Constraint-Directed Reasoning Approach to Job
Shop Scheduling", Proc IEEE Conf. on Trends and Applications 83, Gaithers-
berg, MD, May 1983.


Dallas Webster
Burroughs Austin Research Center
CMP.BARC@R20.UTexas.Edu
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