NITPACK: a numerical interactive tree package
Patrick W. Gaffney, J.W. Wooten, Kerstin A. Kessel · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1981
The purpose of this report is to describe a package of transportable FORTRAN programs for computer-aided decision trees. The name of the package is NITPACK and it consists of two primary programs called NITREE and NIT. The purpose of NITREE is to convert a decision tree or flowchart into a format that may be transmitted to a user at a computer terminal. The actual transmission is performed by the companion program NIT. By responding at the terminal to the questions displayed by NIT, the user is guided through the corresponding path in the tree. In this paper the particular application area that NITPACK is applied to is numerical work. However, NITPACK may be used for both scientific and nonscientific applications. The range of applications depends upon the resourcefulness of the person implementing NITPACK.