From: praveenellur@yahoo.co.in   
      
   pspeck@bsfllp.com (Paul) wrote in message news:...   
   > I'm an AI newbie, with only about 1 week's worth of experience   
   > starting to read up about the subject.   
   >   
   > But I'm the Product Manager on an enterprise software project in which   
   > we wish to incorporate a rules-based expert system into a distributed   
   > .NET Windows ap., and so I'm wondering...   
   >   
   > What are the best expert system development packages that are out   
   > there?   
   >   
   > Are there any that integrate with Visual Studio or utilize C#?   
   >   
   > More importantly, who offers the best integrated solution for:   
   > creating a knowledge base (preferably using both GUI--remember we're   
   > newbies and programming), creating an inference engine, and   
   > incorporating that engine into our larger ap?   
   >   
   > By the way, which is better Prolog, Lisp or something else?   
   >   
   > I'm much less concerned at this point about things like real-time   
   > performance than I am in finding an extremely user-friendly   
   > development environment in which to build our prototype.   
   >   
   > Any opinions will be greatly appreciated.   
      
   What sort of expert system are you trying to create? I use OpenCyc - a   
   Common sense knowledge base system, for my Masters Thesis.For building   
   a expert system in OpenCyc, you need to have some knowledge of CycL.   
   There are APIs in Java, C and Python for OpenCyc. OpenCycKB browser   
   can be used to browse the KB as well as Modify(Requires CycL   
   knowledge) KB.   
      
   HTH,   
      
   Praveen.   
      
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