Integrated systems I: Design principles

Abstract

Abstract. The following design principles are being used in an ongoing project to realize an integrated family of rule based systems that can be easily used separately or together in different combinations to solve problems common to many different disciplines. Some essential features of this family are: (1) Individual members can be used in the normal way as user-friendly rule based systems or they can be transparently invoked by other user-friendly rule based systems without interrogating users.(2) The knowledge (or rule) bases of key members do not mimic the perceived mode of human thought; therefore, they can predict events that cannot be predicted by the state-of-the-art alone.(3) The Law of Conservation of Mass/Energy is used to detect and correct computational errors.

High-speed tools for Global Information Management I. Information processing and retrieval

“…Several examples of the use of TQL have been briefly described in [3]. Additional selected examples are given next.…”

“…Of particular importance is the proposed design for a general pattem recognition system that can be used to identify any combination of moving or stationary entities in different environments from moving or stationary observation platforms [3,32]. A concise description of the design of the proposed system, taken substantially from [3], follows.…”

“…The basis of this project is one component, a High-Speed General Information Management System called HSGIMS or SOLID [1,2], of ongoing work on a family of thirteen general rule-based systems that are not restricted by the state-of-the-art and can easily be used separately or together on virtually any machine for education and research in many different disciplines [3][4][5]. Integrating system applications with discipline independent rule based modules are related and have been discussed in [6][7][8][9].…”