Journal Article10.1145/62065.62067
Expert systems for configuration at Digital: XCON and beyond
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TL;DR: Members of Digital Equipment Corporation's team of expert system experts reflect and recount a decade's worth of lessons learned in designing, and building a core of configuration systems.
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Abstract: Members of Digital Equipment Corporation's team of expert system experts reflect and recount a decade's worth of lessons learned in designing, and building a core of configuration systems
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TL;DR: Book of rise of the expert company, as an amazing reference becomes what you need to get, as a source that may involve the facts, opinion, literature, religion, and many others are the great friends to join with.
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R1 Revisited: Four Years in the Trenches
Judith Bachant,John McDermott +1 more
TL;DR: R1's knowledge has increased substantially and its usefulness to Digital continues to grow and this article describes what is involved in extending R1's performance during the four year period.
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Assessing the maintainability of XCON-in-RIME: coping with the problems of a VERY large rule-base
Elliot Soloway,Judy Bachant,Keith Jensen +2 more
- 13 Jul 1987
TL;DR: Evaluated the potential for enhanced maintainability of XCON-in-RIME over XCON, a rule-based expert system that configures computer systems that is increasingly becoming more difficult to change.
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