Re: JESS: Benchmarks 2000 - 2005

2006-02-09 Thread James C. Owen
yes  SDGjcoJames C. OwenSenior Consultant[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.kbsc.com"Never give up.  Never give up.  Never, never, never give up."  From a speech by former Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, during the most trying times of the British Empire; a great leader too soon forgotten by his

AW: JESS: Jess and deductive databases

2006-02-09 Thread Thomas Beer
Thanks a lot for your immediate response! I will check out the book you recommended. But there is still one important question for me: What are the essential differences between Jess (or an rule-based expert system in general) and deductive databases (e.g. Ontobroker)? Best regards, Thomas Beer

Re: JESS: Research on Ontology + Jess

2006-02-09 Thread Robert Kildare
Hello Jason I am a PhD student in Computing, University of Tasmania, Australia using Jess in a pseudo expert system which relies on the notion that users can learn to become experts. They construct their own ontology .. with the aid of software. There is research into knowledge-base-free expert

Re: JESS: Research on Ontology + Jess

2006-02-09 Thread James C. Owen
Knowledge Systems with a Knowledge Engineer. God save us all. In the movie Patton when they mentioned battles fought without soldiers, Patton was horrified that there could be a battle without honor or glory or personal sacrifice. He said that he hoped that he would never live that

Re: JESS: Research on Ontology + Jess

2006-02-09 Thread Robert Kildare
Knowledge Engineer take 2... I think the word these days is programmer - which we cant really do without. The MCRDR system is designed for the non-computing expert to build and edit his/her own rule set without filtering through the brain of the computing expert who encodes/encoded the rules and