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Your Expert Helper [TM]
This Expert System, Your Expert Helper [TM], allows you to establish up to
one Billion queries. Each query can have up to 20 answers. Each answer can
have up to fifteen thousand characters of text associated with it. Along
with this copious text, every single answer can have one 'GIF', 'PIC, or
'PCX'image attached to it also.
When used as a scripting language, Your Expert Helper [TM] can reflect the
subtleties and nuances of your informational or marketing processes. As a
diagnostic tool, Your Expert Helper [TM] will give you a level of power and
precision unknown in off-the-shelf microcomputer software.
The Expert System achieves "logical sphericality" in its ability to branch
over, under, around, and through the queries. Unlike the mechanistic, stair-
step logic of a traditional decision tree, this feature processes its
relationships without any presumed priorities and, therefore, closely echoes
the spatial relations that characterize the abstract thought processes of
human beings.
To see this feature, please go the Main Program Menu. Once there, enter
selection '1', then 'G' for Get. On the 'Get' screen, observe this on the
bottom left:
I to view Image, E = Expert System
As you enter 'E' for the Expert System, you will see:
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Menu for the Expert System: |
Your Expert Helper [TM] |
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| 1) Display queries |
| 2) Create queries |
| 3) Delete queries |
| 4) Create answers |
| 5) Display Truth Table |
| 6) Edit Truth Table |
| 7) Paging preview |
| 8) Launch |
| 9) History |
| A) Override |
| B) Sound [now On ] |
| C) Truth Table Logic [now Off] |
| D) Edit Truth Table |
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| H) for Help |
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| R) to Return | |
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Return to prior menu |
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Starting with the first query that you have defined in option 4, option 8
presents the 20 answers associated with that query as you launch the Expert
System.
If the answer you select has an associated 'Action' as per option 4, then the
Expert System branches to that query. Otherwise, it interprets the '0' in the
'Action' field as a termination of the launch process.
Thereafter, this option performs its processing by relying on the
relationships you have defined between 'Answers' and 'Actions'. In each
answer, you can enter the following information into the Edit screen:
Description: Picture: Memo: Action:
'Description' is the 50 character descriptive text that appears with its
associated answer.
'Picture', if used, is the 10 character title of the image associated with
this answer. Each answer can have one unique image associated with it.
'Memo' is the free-form text you could enter into each answer. If so
selected, each memo can have up to 15,000 characters of text. To signify
that you wish memo to be associated with that answer, include '*' in the
'Memo' field.
Finally, 'Action' is that Query where you wish the answer to branch if
selected. If you leave 'Action' blank, then once you select that answer, the
program will terminate its launch.
Selection 6, if used allows you to edit the Truth Table. This selection gives
you a light-bar display of the 400 'truths' you define, if used, in the truth
table. It appears in this order:
"Truth Query Answer"
As you traverse the Expert System in option 8, the program is keeping track
of all your Query-Answer combinations in the History file, as per option 9.
Within one second of sensing a match between the History file and the Truth
Table, the Expert System invokes additional logic specific to the congruence
of these two files.
Your Expert Helper [TM] is a trademark of Paul Sax and ACS