It would be greatly helpful to neophytes if knowledge-based system technology incorporating the existing heuristic knowledge about model manipulation can be integrated into the hydrological system. This paper delineates the development and implementation of a prototype knowledgebased system for model manipulation for hydrological processes by employing an expert system shell. The architecture a...

Nowadays, numerical flow and water quality models are widely applied to solve coastal engineering problems. The outcomes of the algorithmic execution often deviate from the anticipation, particularly when the model is set up initially. This necessitates the modeler to perform the manipulation procedure, which comprises feed back and modification. As such, it is desirable that expert system tech...

Several Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) for teaching imperative languages have been built up until now. However, most of them only teach one particular programming language. Moreover, they lack modular composability, that is, existing components of the available ITSs can hardly be reused to create a new ITS. Furthermore, introducing new problems or feedback requires a lot of effort and expe...

There exist various tools for knowledge representation, modelling, and simulation in Artificial Intelligence. We have designed and built a software tool (expert system shell) called McESE (McMaster Expert System Environment) that processes a set of production (decision) rules of a very general form. Such a production (decision) set can be equivalently symbolized as a decision tree. In real life...

The Reasoning Architectures group at MCC has been conducting research in the area of distributed artificial intelligence (DAI). This executive summary presents the potential benefits (“return on investment”) to be gained from this research. In particular, we describe several applications, ranging from process control to office automation, that can be solved with RAD, a distributed expert system...

The paper presents an intelligent GIS architecture that enables us to extend GIS functionality by using domain specific knowledge and inference engine. In this architecture, an intelligent agent monitors events, which occur in the GIS environment, and execute tasks depending on user’s actions. The intelligent agent includes an expert system shell and knowledge base. A hybrid knowledge represent...

in this study, an intelligent system for sorting closed shell and open shell pistachio nuts, was designed and developed based on combined acoustic and artificial neural network (ann) techniques. the system included a microphone, pc, material handling equipment and an air reject pneumatic mechanism. the microphone, placed under the steel plate, received sound signals generated by the pistachio n...

An explicit representation of the problem solving method of an expert system shell as abstract control knowledge provides a powerful foundation for learning. This paper describes the abstract control knowledge of the HERACLES expert system shell for heuristic classification problems, and describes how the ODYSSEUS apprenticeship learning program uses this representation to semi-automate “end-ga...