Inference bear
Martin R. Frank, Piyawadee “Noi” Sukaviriya, James D. Foley · 1995
We present Inference Bear ("An Inference Creature based on .!lefors;.and After Snapshots") which lets users build functional graphical user interfaces by demonstration.Inference Bear is unique in its use of a domain-independent reasoning engine.This approach has several advantages over systems that are closely tied to their domains.Most notably, Inference Bear reasons about a class of relationships that is defined by their computational complexity while rule-based systems are limited to reasoning about the class of relationships that the designer foresaw when building the system.However, it is also more difficult to design domain-independent demonstrational systems that are as easy to use as their domain-specific counterparts.The paper addresses this issue, and other issues relating to domain-independence.