Obiettivo The objective of ESTEAM was to design and implement an expert system architecture for advice-giving systems. The function of an automatic adviser is to assist an inquirer with a problem. The problem may be ill-defined and the number of potential solutions may be large. In this situation, the adviser can help the inquirer to provide a statement of his or her goals and a description of the problem sufficient for the generation, by the machine, of trial solutions for consideration. The objective of the project was to design and implement an expert system architecture for advice-giving systems. The function of an automatic adviser is to assist and inquirer with a problem. The problem may be ill defined and the number of potential solutions may be large. In this situation, the adviser can help the inquirer to provide a statement of his or her goals and a description of the problem sufficient for the generation, by the machine, of trial solutions for consideration. The architecture was divided into 2 complementary strands: for designing and implementing architectures for heterogeneous distributed advice-giving systems; and methods and tools to model knowledge in advice-giving expert systems. These were a dialogue manager, a problem solver, a cooperative answering agent and a database agent. The main computational problem tackled by the combined cooperative action of the agents was how to manage those complexities of advice-giving that require the integration of knowledge and data from a variety of sources. This was solved by controlling the cooperative functioning of several sources of knowledge by using different representational schemes interpreted by different inference engines. Each knowledge source was considered to be an independent agent, only communicating with other such agents via messages encoding queries and answers. In addition to architectural issues, the dialogue system was provided with the capability for modelling lines of thought of the user, as perceived through the person-machine interaction. A simplified financial investment adviser was constructed to provide a limited example suitable for an application study. Knowledge acquisition was completed, and the capability of pairs of actors to cooperate was tested by processing problems in this domain. A first demonstration showed the integration of the problem solver, the dialogue manager and the database agents. A second demonstration illustrated the integration of the cooperativ e answering agent, the dialogue manager, the rule base management and the database.The architecture was divided into two complementary strands: -The AGES architecture, dealing with concepts and tools for designing and implementing architectures for heterogeneous distributed advice-giving systems. This architecture has been ported from its development environment (TI Explorer) to a Sun/Unix envir onment. -Methods and tools to model knowledge in advice-giving expert systems. These "cooperative agents", which each take control in turn, were a dialogue manager, a problem solver, a cooperative answering agent and a database agent (to ORACLE). The main computational problem tackled by the combined cooperative action of the agents was how to manage those complexities of advice-giving that require the integration of knowledge and data from a variety of sources. This was solved by controlling the cooperative functioning of several sources of knowledge by using different representational schemes interpreted by different inference engines. Each knowledge source was considered to be an independent agent, only communicating with other such agents via messages encoding queries and answers. In addition to architectural issues, the dialogue system was provided with the capability for modelling lines of thought of the user, as perceived through the person-machine interaction. A simplified financial investment adviser was constructed to provide a limited example suitable for an application study. Knowledge acquisition was completed, and the capability of pairs of actors to cooperate was tested by processing problems in this domain. A first demonstration showed the integration of the problem solver, the dialogue manager and the database agents. A second demonstration illustrated the integration of the cooperative answering agent, the dialogue manager, the rule-base management and th e database. Exploitation The major contribution of ESTEAM was the provision of a prototype architecture for heterogeneous distributed advice-giving systems. The results will be exploited internally by the partners for the development of specific applications. Campo scientifico scienze naturaliinformatica e scienze dell'informazionebasi di datiscienze naturaliinformatica e scienze dell'informazioneintelligenza artificialesistemi esperti Programma(i) FP1-ESPRIT 1 - European programme (EEC) for research and development in information technologies (ESPRIT), 1984-1988 Argomento(i) Data not available Invito a presentare proposte Data not available Meccanismo di finanziamento Data not available Coordinatore CAP GEMINI INNOVATION Indirizzo 118 rue de tocqueville 75017 Paris Francia Mostra sulla mappa Contributo UE Nessun dato Partecipanti (4) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni SpA Italia Contributo UE € 0,00 Indirizzo Via g. reiss romoli, 274 10148 Torino Mostra sulla mappa Collegamenti Sito web Opens in new window Altri finanziamenti Nessun dato Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) Francia Contributo UE € 0,00 Indirizzo 2 avenue édouard-belin 31055 Toulouse Mostra sulla mappa Altri finanziamenti Nessun dato PHILIPS SA Belgio Contributo UE € 0,00 Indirizzo Av. albert einstein 1348 Louvain-la-neuve Mostra sulla mappa Altri finanziamenti Nessun dato Politecnico di Milano Italia Contributo UE € 0,00 Indirizzo Piazza leonardo da vinci 32 20133 Milano Mostra sulla mappa Altri finanziamenti Nessun dato
