BEACON configurator (Upenn Colloquium)

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From: Tim Finin
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1989 21:34

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		      University of Pennsylvania
	    Department of Computer and Information Science
				   
			      Colloquium
				   
		      The UNISYS BEACON System:
	 An Expert System Configurator Using a KL-ONE Network
		  with a Distributed User Interface
				   
				   
			Dr. K. W.(Bill) Scholz
		     Unisys Paoli Research Center
		       (scholz@prc.unisys.com)
				   

The Unisys Paoli Research Center has developed a large expert system
as a solution to a major bottleneck in the attempt to configure
mainframe computers throughout the Unisys sales organization.  The
BEACON expert system depends on a carefully constructed model in which
the target computer is represented as a semantic network.  Runtime
traversal of the network directs a dialog with the user from which an
instance network is formed which represents the specific configuration
desired by the user.  The representation and traversal of the semantic
network is implemented in PROLOG for execution on a single large Unix
system, while the window-based user interface executes on multiple
WAN-connected PCs.  This talk will focus on the utilization of the
semantic network and its distributed user interface as the key
architectural components of a commercially viable expert system.

                     Thursday, January 19, 1989

                      Refreshments 2:30 - 3:00
                          129 Pender Lab

                       Colloquium 3:00 - 4:30
                             216 Moore

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Subject: BEACON configurator (Upenn Colloquium)
Summary: Prolog-based Expert System Configurator Using semantic Network
Keywords: configurator, semantic net, KL-ONE, expert system
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