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MIKE: Free and portable expert system teaching system.
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MIKE (Micro Interpreter for Knowledge Engineering) is a full-featured,
free, and portable software environment designed for teaching purposes
at the UK's Open University. It includes forward and backward
chaining rules with user-definable conflict resolution strategies, and
a frame representation language with inheritance and 'demons' (code
triggered by frame access or change), plus user-settable inheritance
strategies. Automatic 'how' explanations (proof histories) are
provided for rule execution, as are user-specified 'why' explanations.
Coarse-grained and fine-grained rule tracing facilities are provided,
along with a novel 'rule graph' display which concisely shows the
history of rule execution. MIKE, which forms the kernel of an Open
University course on Knowledge Engineering, is written in a
conservative and portable subset of Edinburgh-syntax Prolog, and is
distributed as non-copy-protected source code.
MIKE version 1 was described in the October/November 1990 issue of
BYTE. MIKE v1.50, which was formerly available from a range of ftp
servers, has been superseded by two newer versions: MIKEv2.03, a full
Prolog source code version, incorporating a RETE algorithm for fast
forward chaining, a truth maintenance system, uncertainty handling,
and hypothetical worlds, and MIKEv2.50, a turnkey DOS version with
menu-driven interface and frame- and rule-browsing tools, fully
compatible with MIKEv2.03, but without source code.
Origin:
hcrl.open.ac.uk:/pub/software/src/MIKEv2.03/* [137.108.81.16]
hcrl.open.ac.uk:/pub/software/pc/MIKEV25.ZIP [137.108.81.16]
Version: 2.03 (1-APR-91), 2.50
Ports: Edinburgh-compatible Prolog
Copying: Copyright (c) 1989-91 The Open University (U.K.)
Use, copying, modification, and distribution permitted.
CD-ROM: Prime Time Freeware for AI, Issue 1-1
Author(s): Marc Eisenstadt, Mike Brayshaw
Contact: Marc Eisenstadt
Human Cognition Research Lab
The Open University
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK
Tel: +44 908-65-3149
Fax: +44 908-65-3169
Keywords:
Authors!Brayshaw, Authors!Eisenstadt, Expert System Shells,
Hypothetical Worlds, MIKE, RETE, Truth Maintenance,
Uncertainty
References: ?
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