• Nexpert Object: Realtime Abduction and Explanation [The glorious 80'sExpertsystems]

    From Mild Shock@[email protected] to comp.lang.prolog on Thu Apr 16 16:23:55 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.prolog

    Hi,

    Toying around with Nexpert Object in the 80's
    was quite fun. It had realtime Abduction and
    Explanation. Abduction had an "ask" mechanism

    and you could "volontier" values:

    Chapter The Intelligent Rules Element
    Click OK to continue the inferencing session - page 72 https://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~sunpool/software/ee21/getstart/getstart.pdf

    The fancy part was the rule network display,
    which was animated, not only showing complete
    explanations, but also incomplete explanations,

    while forward and/or backward chaining was in
    progress. SWI-Prolog should adopt that rule nodes
    grow from left to right, and not from bottom to top.

    Bye
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