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- Mobal is a sophisticated system for developing operational models of
- application domains. It integrates a manual knowledge acquisition and
- inspection environment, a powerful inference engine, machine learning
- methods for automated knowledge acquisition, and a knowledge revision tool.
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- By using Mobal's knowledge acquisition environment, you can
- incrementally develop a model of your domain in terms of logical facts
- and rules. You can inspect the knowledge you have entered in text or
- graphics windows, augment the knowledge, or change it at any time.
- The built-in inference engine can immediately execute the rules you
- have entered to show you the consequences of your inputs, or answer
- queries about the current knowledge. Mobal also builds a dynamic sort
- taxonomy from your inputs. If you wish, you can use machine learning
- methods to automatically discover additional rules based on the facts
- that you have entered, or to form new concepts. If there are
- contradictions in the knowledge base due to incorrect rules or facts,
- there is a knowledge revision tool to help you locate the problem and fix
- it.
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