Requirements specification for a real-time embedded expert system for rapid prototyping
S.C. Suh, Murat M. Tanik, Dennis J. Frailey · 2003
Several commercial expert system shells provide knowledge engineers with the capability of developing expert system applications, but are not able to meet the size constraints or provide the run-time performance needed to address problems associated with delivery of embedded real-time applications. In addition, there is no provision to provide deliverable code in Ada, a requirement for many US DoD systems. The embedded consultant project addresses these issues by knowledge-base size reduction by means of code optimization techniques, and by an inference engine, written in Ada, designed for real-time applications. A new rapid prototyping approach for real-time applications is described. The methodology is based on the reuse of existing software components. The approach, and the significance of the work are discussed.>