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## KBTools - bringing Knowledge-Based Systems to the Amiga.

VERSION

### Prototype release. See below.

AUTHOR

The software is a usable product of a research project carried out at the IT Institute of the University of Salford. The main authors were Dr Andrew Basden and Alex Brown.

Email: A.Brown@iti.salford.ac.uk
WWW: http://www.salford.ac.uk/iti/docs/depts/iti/projects/inca/inca.html
Phone: 0161-745-5292
Fax: 0161-745-8169

DESCRIPTION

Knowledge-Based Systems encapsulate human knowledge to perform tasks such as diagnosis, prediction and selection. They are particularly appropriate for handling complexity and uncertainty. KBTools is a toolkit which supports the construction and maintenance of Knowledge-Based Systems.

KBTools allows for full forward-chaining and backward-chaining, uncertainty, probabilistic and bayesian reasoning and provides a comprehensive set of inference procedures. The emphasis is on ease of building Knowledge Bases as Boxes and Arrows diagrams. A flexible GUI provides the interface between the Knowledge Engineer and the Boxes and Arrows representation of the Knowledge Base. The interface between the system and the end user is configurable by the knowledge engineer.

We hope to bring this product to full commercial status; the software released is a prototype version only. We are placing it in the public domain for the following reasons:

1. To elicit any comments, suggestions and criticisms regarding the prototype software.
2. To allow people to develop and contribute knowledge bases or ideas for knowledge bases.
3. To contact people interested in registering as developers.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Amiga OS 2.0+. 2mb+ chip memory.

AVAILABILITY

The software is directly available via the Internet:
http://www.salford.ac.uk/docs/depts/iti/projects/inca/kbtools.lha (346375)

PRICE

Free.

DISTRIBUTABILITY

The prototype version of the software is freeware and placed in the public domain with the following provisos:

1. The software is the property of the University of Salford.
2. The source code is only available to registered developers.