Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!purdue!gatech!uflorida!kirmse From: kirmse@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU (Dale Kirmse) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Every heard of KLIPS ??? Message-ID: <13089@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Date: 17 Mar 88 17:38:29 GMT References: <31922@gt-cmmsr.GATECH.EDU> Organization: UF CIS Department Lines: 71 Summary: information on CLIPS The program KLIPS that you are probably looking for is CLIPS. The README file for the version that I have access to reads as follows: ________________ The Artificial Intelligence Section of the Mission Planning and Analysis Division at NASA/Johnson Space Center has completed the first release version of CLIPS, a tool for the development of expert systems. CLIPS is an inference engine and language syntax which provides the framework for the construction of rule-based expert systems. CLIPS was entirely developed in C for performance and portability and is available for a wide variety of computers, from PC's to a CRAY. The key features of CLIPS are: Powerful Rule Syntax: CLIPS allows Forward Chaining Rules with free form patterns, single and multi-field variable bindings across patterns, user defined predicate functions on the LHS of a rule, and other powerful features. Portable: CLIPS has been installed on over half a dozen machines without little or no code changes. High Performance: CLIPS performance on minicomputers (VAX, SUN) is comparable to the performance of high powered expert system tools in those environments. On microcomputers, CLIPS outperforms most other microcomputer based tools. Embeddable: CLIPS systems may be embedded within other C programs and called as a subroutine. Interactive Development: CLIPS provides an interactive, text oriented development environment, including debugging aids. Completely integrated with C: Users may define and call their own functions from within CLIPS. Extensible: CLIPS may be easily extended to add new capabilities. Source Code: CLIPS comes with all source code and can be modified or tailored to meet a specific users's needs. Fully Documented: CLIPS comes with a full reference manual complete with numerous examples of CLIPS syntax. Examples are also given on how to create user defined functions and CLIPS extensions. A User's Guide to introduce expert system programming with CLIPS is also available. CLIPS is available at no cost to NASA, DoD or other government agencies. Call the CLIPS Help Desk at (713) 280-2233 to obtain a copy. Other organizations can obtain CLIPS and/or documentation for a nominal fee through COSMIC: COSMIC 382 E. Broad St Athens, GA 30602 (404) 542-3265 ________________ I understand from talking to NASA personnel that the current plans are to include Macitosh and X window interfaces in later versions. And, an ART sales representative has told me that CLIPS was the initial basis of microART which is currently underdevelopment and will have many features not now in CLIPS. -- Dale Kirmse Chemical Engineering Department University of Florida Gainesville, Florida 32611 Internet: kirmse@ufl.bikini.UUCP Phone: (904-392-0862) -- -- Dale Kirmse @bikini.cis.ufl.edu