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
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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
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