NITPACK: An Interactive Tree Package
Patrick W. Gaffney, J. W. Wooter, Kerstin Anne Kessel, Wayne R. McKinney · ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software · 1983
The purpose of this paper is to describe a package of transportable FORTRAN programs which may be used to implement decision trees or flowcharts on a digital computer.The package is called NITPACK and it consists of two primary subroutines NITREE and NIT.The purpose of NITREE is to convert a decision tree or flowcharts into a format that may be transmitted to a user at a computer terminal.The actual transmission is performed by the companion routine NIT.By responding at the terminal to the questions displayed in NIT, the user is guided through the corresponding path in the tree.NITPACK may be used for both scientific and nonscientific work.In fact, the range of applications depends upon the resourcefulness of the person implementing NITPACK.