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From: arxt@tank.uchicago.edu (patrick  palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AI using MAGELLAN
Summary: maybe It's a toy
Keywords: Is this program a good AI shell?
Message-ID: <1492@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 19 Jan 89 23:04:39 GMT
References: <1368@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Reply-To: arxt@tank.uchicago.edu (patrick  palmer)
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In article <1368@cod.NOSC.MIL> hepner@cod.NOSC.MIL (Thomas A. Hepner) writes:
>I was wondering if anyone out there has had an opportunity to use MAGELLAN, the
>AI expert systems shell by Emerald technologies, and if so what your impressions
>of the program were....

I wrote them a brief letter a few months ago with some simple questions such 
as how many rules it could use, how it handled uncertainty, and whether it 
could call other progarms to generate numbers to be used in decisions.  They 
did not reply, which suggests to me that it is a toy with no one around to 
support it.  ON the other hand I wrote to EXSYS last year about their shell
for PC's and got a detailed answer which included a statment that their 
Eupopean distributors had suggested an A2000 version which they might produce
within the year.  They have apparently not produced it yet though.  I think 
pressure from the European market might be our best hope for getting some
expert system shells for the Amiga.

Pat Palmer  (email: ppalmer@oddjob.uchicago.edu)