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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 MIKE v1.50, which was formerly available from a range of ftp servers, has been superseded by two newer versions: MIKEv2.03, a full Prolog source code version, incorporating a RETE algorithm for fast forward chaining, a truth maintenance system,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.
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   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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