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- Short: Knowledge Based System Inference Net Builder
- Author: Andrew@basden.demon.co.uk
- Uploader: Andrew@basden.demon.co.uk
- Version: 1.086
- Type: dev/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 or docs/index.html (which have
- the same content) to get going. Most documentation is now in html.
-
- 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.basden.demon.co.uk/pgm/Istar
- http://www.salford.ac.uk/its274/istar/istar.html
-
- NEW IN THIS VERSION (See Docs/history.html)
-
- Version 1.086 is an update to Version 1.085 which corrects a couple
- of minor bugs and extends the working of some esoteric inference
- mechanisms. (See docs/bugs.html).
-
- The new unary operators introduced in v1.085 have been made better
- and extended. See docs/history.html.
-
- PLANS
-
- Next main version I hope to have facilities to obtain information
- via ARexx and the internet.
-
- 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, 3000, 4000. Will just about run in
- 2Mb machines, but recommend use the IstarPrefs_LowMem as your
- preferences file.
-
- Assigns needed (can work without them):
- IstarSys: (has IstarPrefs and, in future, other things)
- KBTools: where KBs are saved etc.
- Fonts used (unless specified in IstarPrefs):
- Courier
- Garnet
- Topaz
- Libs used:
- iff.library (but can work without it)
-
- It works best if you assign KBTools: to the directory where you keep
- your knowledge bases, and IstarSys: to a directory where various system
- files are kept. At present, the only file sought in IstarSys is IstarPrefs.
- Otherwise just starts as Sys: root.
-
- FILES INCLUDED:
-
- Istar Main program.
- This Istar.readme and Intro files.
- Preferences files.
- Documentation. Most is now html and cross-linked
- for easy reference. docs/Intro is an ascii version of index.html.
- Sample knowledge bases.
- Installation script.
-
- DISCLAIMER:
-
- Istar is supplied as-is.
-
- 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 transformations do not yet work. See bugs.html.
-
- Let me know what you think of it, by mailing me at Istar@basden.demon.co.uk
-
- Andrew Basden.
- 26.12.97.
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 628 249 60.3% 06-Nov-96 18:29:58 Docs.info
- 19654 5145 73.8% 26-Dec-97 13:34:42 +adp.iff
- 14032 5661 59.6% 17-Mar-98 22:25:36 +bugs.html
- 31054 11878 61.7% 05-Mar-98 17:28:48 +driving.html
- 28974 11393 60.6% 17-Mar-98 22:25:14 +history.html
- 4758 2298 51.7% 26-Dec-97 20:51:16 +index.html
- 18468 5214 71.7% 23-Dec-97 19:06:54 +inference.html
- 4132 2092 49.3% 26-Dec-97 22:14:44 +Intro
- 8667 3558 58.9% 22-Dec-97 23:06:32 +KBs.html
- 4718 1929 59.1% 26-Dec-97 13:32:08 +keys.html
- 3829 1686 55.9% 24-Dec-97 19:57:34 +net.manip.html
- 11829 4345 63.2% 26-Dec-97 14:33:44 +p.adp.html
- 31166 11086 64.4% 02-Feb-98 17:12:28 +panels.html
- 34552 12148 64.8% 05-Mar-98 17:29:46 +rfman.html
- 8110 2258 72.1% 05-Mar-98 19:29:16 +uop.html
- 99765 36954 62.9% 05-Mar-98 17:30:46 +using.html
- 5832 2671 54.2% 17-Mar-98 22:28:20 +using.sn.html
- 4583 1670 63.5% 22-Dec-97 23:10:34 +values.html
- 3160 2261 28.4% 04-Jan-95 16:22:00 iff.library
- 2221 1007 54.6% 06-Mar-98 22:40:52 Install.readme
- 443 113 74.4% 26-Dec-97 23:14:18 Install.readme.info
- 3506 1353 61.4% 06-Mar-98 22:41:02 Install_Istar
- 663 319 51.8% 05-Jan-95 10:19:24 Install_Istar.info
- 115144 60009 47.8% 30-Jul-93 13:27:12 Installer
- 453552 229077 49.4% 17-Mar-98 22:01:14 Istar
- 602 173 71.2% 13-May-96 10:54:58 Istar.info
- 2939 1513 48.5% 17-Mar-98 22:34:00 Istar.readme
- 443 112 74.7% 26-Dec-97 23:14:56 Istar.readme.info
- 146 115 21.2% 13-Nov-96 06:47:36 IstarPrefs_Example
- 21 21 0.0% 06-Nov-96 17:07:04 IstarPrefs_LowMem
- 628 250 60.1% 27-Apr-95 11:00:06 KBs.info
- 52200 22710 56.4% 09-Apr-97 14:02:44 +A.I.
- 50956 21876 57.0% 26-Dec-97 14:50:06 +Philosophy
- 44184 18474 58.1% 26-Dec-97 14:49:48 +Shares
- 56652 24600 56.5% 30-Jan-98 20:24:04 +Trees
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