Development Environment for Expert System Based on ES/SDEM

Abstract

We are developing an intelligent development environment for knowledge systems based on ES/SDEM (Software Development Engineering Methodology for Expert Systems). The environment provides not only development tools such as editors or debugger, but also knowledge base called Knowledge Ware (KW) which can be used on different applications. KW is written using an object-oriented language on Common Lisp, and will provide the following advantages. ・User can build up expert systems rapidly using differential programming technique. ・Adding the parts made for an expert system to KW, it is easy to use the same parts for developing another expert systems. In this paper, the approach for building KW and the function of KW will be shown.