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110.0. "G-KAPS Announcement - Give it a try!!!!" by HERON::ROACH (TANSTAAFL !) Mon Jun 05 1989 10:44

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                                        Date:     02-Jun-1989 11:46pm ETE
                                        From:     EVANS
                                                  EVANS@SELECT@SELECT@MRGATE@STATOS@VBO
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TO:  ROACH@A1NSTC


Subject: G-KAPS Announcement

The G-KAPS software is now operational, and ready for user testing.  As
expected, there are a few minor bugs to be fixed, and the final documentation 
is not yet available.  We plan to use the month of June on the following tasks:

	1. Fix bugs as they are found.

	2. Add the following enhancements (as time permits):

		1) Color maps
		2) Preference Groups
		3) Static Analysis
		4) Print model
		5) Programming examples

	3. Modify screen layouts to reflect users' experience.

	4. Proceed with documentation.

G-KAPS is installed on the SELECT cluster.  However, to run G-KAPS on your
VAXstation,  you must have the system manager modify the startup data for
your node to run the G-KAPS startup file when your satellite reboots.  

The G-KAPS team will be updating the version of software running on SELECT:: 
as bugs are fixed.

At a later date a G-KAPS software kit will be available for use on other
machines.

Release Notes are in the file SELECT::Sys$Help:GKAPS010.RELEASE_NOTES.

The available documentation consists of a short paper, "Knowledge
Representation in G-KAPS" and a preliminary draft of the "G-KAPS User Manual".
Paper copies of this documentation are available from our writer, Marlene
Reinschmidt at DLB12-2/D9.

Feedback on all aspects of G-KAPS is encouraged.  You may contact Steve Polit
or me about any G-KAPS matter.  There also is a notesfile SELECT::GKAPS
for discussion of VAX G-KAPS.

Robert N. Evans
Project Leader, VAX G-KAPS software development

    G-KAPS is a spin-off of a Digital sponsored research effort at CMU
    called MOLE. MOLE is a set of OPS5 rules that know how to reason about
    heuristic classification problems, if the problem is represented
    properly in working memory elements (WME's). MOLE has a precompiler
    that let's you describe your problem domain in a structured language in
    the form of Cause & Effect relationships. The pre-compiler generates a
    representation of the problem in OPS WME's which the rules can reason
    over.
    
    G-KAPS is an interface that let's you enter knowledge about
    the problem domain graphically, so that concievably an expert can enter
    his/her knowledge about a domain directly. Tool is geared (I think) to
    the diagnostic/decision support domain.
    
    This is a thumbnail sketch of the project and I probobly have not
    properly described it, but it is the general drift of the project.
    Please read some of the introductory info pointed to in .0 for a better
    description.
    
    pat