Expert systems for configuration at Digital: XCON and beyond

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Expert systems for configuration at Digital: XCON and beyond

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 32 , Issue 3 (March 1989) table of contents

Pages: 298 - 318

Year of Publication: 1989

ISSN:0001-0782

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Virginia E. Barker	Digital Equipment Corp., Marlboro, MA
Dennis E. O'Connor	Digital Equipment Corp., Marlboro, MA
Judith Bachant	Digital Equipment Corp., Marlboro, MA
Elliot Soloway	Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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ABSTRACT

Members of Digital Equipment Corporation's team of expert system experts reflect and recount a decade's worth of lessons learned in designing, and building a core of configuration systems

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
I. Computing Methodologies
I.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Additional Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
K.6.1 Project and People Management
Subjects: Systems development

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors, Management, Performance

REVIEW

"Jaak Tepandi : Reviewer"

The proponents of artificial intelligence often refer to configuration systems at Digital (R1, XCON, XSEL, and others) as the most successful applications of knowledge-based methods. While this is in some sense true—this paper estimates th more...

Collaborative Colleagues:

Virginia E. Barker: colleagues

Dennis E. O'Connor: colleagues

Judith Bachant: colleagues

Elliot Soloway: colleagues

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