Start Date
4-1988 8:00 AM
Description
We describe a software architecture based on Ada tasking and packaging which facilitates the construction of distributed knowledge-based systems. We used this architecture to build the Knowledge-Based Maintenance Expert System (KNOMES) prototype for the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) of the NASA Space Station Mobile Service Center. Each module of the system contains Ada packages of standard systems services, which interface with an artificial intelligence/ knowledge-based system (AI/KBS) language component that performs knowledge-based reasoning. By using Ada as the fundamental structure, we achieved a well-structured, maintainable program; by retaining the AI/KBS language component, we were able to capture the knowledge needed to solve illstructured, dynamic, and/or nonalgorithmic problems.
Ada and Knowledge-Based Systems: A Prototype Combining the Best of Both Worlds
We describe a software architecture based on Ada tasking and packaging which facilitates the construction of distributed knowledge-based systems. We used this architecture to build the Knowledge-Based Maintenance Expert System (KNOMES) prototype for the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) of the NASA Space Station Mobile Service Center. Each module of the system contains Ada packages of standard systems services, which interface with an artificial intelligence/ knowledge-based system (AI/KBS) language component that performs knowledge-based reasoning. By using Ada as the fundamental structure, we achieved a well-structured, maintainable program; by retaining the AI/KBS language component, we were able to capture the knowledge needed to solve illstructured, dynamic, and/or nonalgorithmic problems.
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