Object-Oriented Technology for Expert System Generation

Abstract

A technology for rapid prototyping expert systems or intelligent systems as a whole is proposed. The main constituents of the technology are the object-oriented model of data and knowledge representation and the mechanism for data-knowledge transformation on the basis of an effective algorithm of inferring all good classification tests. An approach to expert system development by means of this technology is analyzed. The toolkits for expert system generation are described and the application of these tools to the development of a small geological expert system is demonstrated.