Object-oriented Ada for knowledge-based system and neural network applications

The application of Ada and an object-oriented approach to the design and construction of advanced defence systems are both attracting increasing attention. The Ada language contains some support for object-oriented programming but has some notable deficiencies. The Ada object-oriented toolkit described has been developed to remedy this by providing facilities to create and manipulate objects and to provide support for more general relationships between objects. Such features are especially useful when developing system elements using knowledge based system or neural network techniques. The toolkit and preliminary applications are described