NATURAL EXPERT: A Commercial Functional Programming Environment (1993)
| Venue: | J. of Functional Programming |
| Citations: | 6 - 1 self |
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@ARTICLE{Hutchison93naturalexpert:,
author = {N. W. O. Hutchison and U. Neuhaus and M. Schmidt-Schauss and C. V. Hall},
title = {NATURAL EXPERT: A Commercial Functional Programming Environment},
journal = {J. of Functional Programming},
year = {1993},
volume = {7}
}
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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. 1 Introduction Natural Expert (SAG90a; SAG90b) by Software AG is a product that supports the development of knowledge based systems. It includes a functional language called Natural Expert Language (NEL), which is the first successful implementation of a lazy functional language in a database oriented mainframe environment. Natural Expert is currently installed and used at about 20 customer sites on a variety of platforms, and the applications are in every day use by several hundred people. Softw...
