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- Short: Decision Support Knowledge Based System Builder
- Author: Andrew@basden.demon.co.uk
- Uploader: Andrew@basden.demon.co.uk
- Version: 1.03
- Type: biz/misc
-
- ISTAR
-
- Istar is a knowledge based system builder that allows you to construct
- inference nets, bayesian nets and semantic nets. It has a particularly
- nice user interface, with a smoothness that only Amiga hardware can give.
- So it is useful for decision support, to help you clarify complex ideas.
-
- You build your knowledge base by drawing boxes and arrows, and then
- can run the KB direct. See Docs/Intro to get going.
-
- See the following Web pages:
-
- The main inca page is
- http://www.salford.ac.uk/iti/projects/inca/inca.html
-
- The main Istar page is
- http://www.salford.ac.uk/its274/istar/istar.html
-
- ISTAR NEWS
-
- As bugs are discovered, as tips are suggested, and as better
- documentation is written, etc., - things that do not involve
- a new version of Istar - they will be put on Aminet as they arrive,
- under the name Istarnews. So Istarnews should appear in the RECENT
- list more frequently than versions of Istar.
-
- COPYRIGHT
-
- Istar, all versions, are copyright (C) Andrew Basden, University
- of Salford, Salford, M5 4WT, U.K. Andrew@basden.demon.co.uk.
-
- The version with this file can be used freely as long as all copies
- of it include the name 'Istar' in their file names whereever they
- are stored and as long as this file and copyright notice is
- kept with the file.
-
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
-
- Known to work on Amiga 1200. Also on 4000 but see 'Limitations and
- Bugs' file. Probably will work on AmigaDos 2.0 upwards, but needs
- 2 Mb of memory to run. Will run on basic 1200 as long as your Workbench
- screen is no bigger than 640x256 4 colours.
-
- Fonts used:
- CGTimes
- Topaz
- Libs used:
- iff.library (but can work without it)
-
- It works best if you assign KBTools: to the directory where you keep
- you knowledge bases. Otherwise just starts as Sys: root.
-
- FILES INCLUDED:
-
- Istar1.03 Main program. (1.03 is version number and will change.)
-
- Other files are documentation. Read Intro first and it explains the
- other files.
-
- DISCLAIMER:
-
- Istar is still under development. Some of its buttons do not work
- because they are not attached to anything yet. Some of its more
- exotic data transofrmations do not yet work.
-
- Let me know what you think of it.
-
- Andrew Basden.
- 14.9.96
-