Title :
Extending CATS: mixed-initiative inferencing
Author :
Anand, Tejwansh S. ; Lee, K.P.
Author_Institution :
North American Philips Corp., Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA
Abstract :
CATS is an architecture for building diagnostic expert systems. The authors describe an extension to CATS to support mixed-initiative inferencing. Currently the user cannot volunteer any information other than that requested by the system. Mixed-initiative inferencing will allow that user to do this. Issues discussed are: when the user can volunteer information; what information the user can volunteer; how the system treats that information; and what the system must do when the user-supplied information conflicts with the system´s current knowledge
Keywords :
expert systems; inference mechanisms; knowledge engineering; program interpreters; programming environments; user interfaces; CATS; diagnostic expert systems; interpreters; mixed-initiative inferencing; user interfaces; user-supplied information; Artificial intelligence; Buildings; Cats; Computer aided instruction; Context; Diagnostic expert systems; Electronic mail; Expert systems; Knowledge based systems; Laboratories;
Conference_Titel :
Artificial Intelligence Applications, 1989. Proceedings., Fifth Conference on
Conference_Location :
Miami, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-1902-3
DOI :
10.1109/CAIA.1989.49143
