NATURAL EXPERT: a commercial functional programming environment

  • Authors:
  • Nigel W. O. Hutchison;Ute Neuhaus;Manfred Schmidt-Schauss;Cordy V. Hall

  • Affiliations:
  • Software AG, Uhlandstr 12, 64297 Darmstadt, Germany;Software AG, Uhlandstr 12, 64297 Darmstadt, Germany;FB Informatik, J. W.Goethe-Universität, Postfach 11 19 32, 60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany;Department of Computer Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Functional Programming
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

NATURAL EXPERT is a product that allows users to build knowledge-based systems. It uses a lazy functional language, NATURAL EXPERT LANGUAGE, to implement backward chaining and provide a reliable knowledge processing environment in which development can take place. Customers from all over the world buy the system and have used it to handle a variety of problems, including applications such as airplane servicing and bank loan assessment. Some of these are used 10,000 times or more per month.