🚀 go-pugleaf

                              Wed 29 Jan 1992

This is a request for information.

My colleague and I are involved in the development of knowledge-
based real-time distributed systems applied to the engineering
domain.  So far, we have developed a prototype for heat exchanger
selection (written in C with no declarative inferencing), a number
of prototypes for particle accelerators (various languages, ES
shells and hardware platforms), and are working on an operator
companion or assistant for nuclear power plants.  We are learning
alot but it has been very much a boot strap process.  The
literature is full of articles that talk ABOUT what various people
are doing.  But almost no one gets down to brass tacks (IMHO).  We
are very much in danger of reinventing the wheel so I need to reach
out and touch someone ... you perhaps.

So here is my request:  If you are involved (or know of someone
involved) in real-time expert systems, distributed ES
(blackboards), knowledge-based systems, operator aids, decision
support systems and the like, especially if applied to engineering,
please contact me (email, phone, whatever).  I'll post a summary.
I am particularly interested in the Canadian scene.  I promised to
speak about the Canadian scene at the March ICHMT forum on ES and
Computer Simulation in Energy Engineering (Germany).  Here's your
chance to get some free advertising. 

-- 
Bill Garland                                           garlandw@mcmaster.ca
McMaster University                                    EngPhys Chairman