CAPS: a connectionist architecture for production systems

Author

Bhogal, Amrik S. ; Seviora, Rudolph E. ; Elmasry, Mohamed I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

i

fYear

1990

fDate

2-5 Jan 1990

Firstpage

202

Abstract

CAPS supports most features of the OPS5 language, including variables, negation, and conjunction and disjunction of conditions. The architecture uses local representations to facilitate dynamic variable bindings and to reduce the number of interconnections within the network, thus making hardware implementations more feasible. The CAPS processing elements are simple and relatively easy to fabricate. A hardware implementation of a CAPS network can potentially provide a 200-800 fold increase in parallelism over serial implementations. The CAPS architecture is tested by transforming small OPS5 programs into connectionist networks and simulating them on a connectionist simulator. It is demonstrated that connectionist architectures can perform rule-based symbolic reasoning and can support dynamic variable bindings

Keywords

knowledge engineering; neural nets; CAPS architecture; CAPS network; CAPS processing elements; OPS5 language; conjunction; connectionist architecture; connectionist architectures; connectionist networks; connectionist simulator; disjunction; dynamic variable bindings; local representations; negation; parallelism; production systems; rule-based symbolic reasoning; Buildings; Expert systems; Hardware; Neural networks; Production systems; Robustness; System performance; Testing; Vehicle dynamics; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1990., Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kailua-Kona, HI

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1990.205117

Filename

205117