Ron, Have you considered LOOM? It has forms of forward and backward chaining.
http://www.isi.edu/isd/LOOM/ LOOM has a mailing list. The members would probably be happy to assist you in determining if LOOM would be a good fit for your problem. Wish you luck, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ronald Taylor wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Our lab will be developing a large object-oriented (CLOS-based) > knowledgebase for alcoholism research in Lisp (Franz Allegro Common > Lisp). We are looking for a package that will add forward & backward > chaining inference to the classes, class hierarchies, and object > instances that will be in the knowledgebase. We've taken a look at > the SourceForge Lisa project (Intelligent Software Agents in Common > Lisp), but apparently Lisa does not do backward chaining, which will > be important for us. Does anybody have any recommendations? Is anybody > working on a full Lisp version of Jess? > > (I am aware that Jess is a very fine package, which is why I subscribe > to this list! But we were hoping for something that is Lisp-based, for > integration.) > > Ron Taylor > > --------- > //=\ Ronald Taylor Phone: (303) 315-1091 > \=// Director of Gene Expression Analysis Fax: (303) 315-1089 > //=\ Center for Computational Pharmacology > \=// University of Colorado School of Medicine, room 2633 > //=\ Dept of Pharmacology, Campus Box C236 > \=// 4200 E Ninth Ave > //=\ Denver CO 80262 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list > (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------