The design and an example use of Hearsay-III

TLDR

Hearsay‑III offers a framework for building knowledge‑based expert systems, providing general facilities such as representation primitives and an interpreter for large‑grained, flexibly schedulable production rules, while remaining domain‑agnostic. The paper presents a detailed overview of Hearsay‑III’s motivations and facilities, and illustrates its use through a concrete application example.

Abstract

Hearsay-Ill provides a framework for constructing knowledge-based expert systems. While Hearsay-Ill makes no commitment to any particular application domain, it does supply a variety of generally applicable facilities. These include representation primitives and an interpreter for large-grained, flexibly schedulable production rules called knowledge sources. A detailed overview of the motivations behind Hearsay-Ill and the facilities it provides are presented. Finally, an application of Hearsay-Ill is described.