HARD & SOFT
Artificial Intelligence (AI) program is a software system that simulate aspects of human intelligence. An expert system is a computer program that mimics the judgment of experts by following sets of business rules.
The knowledge of the experts is stored in a knowledge base (set of rules) and the engine respond to the questions of one or several users. For each new information, the system uses its smart engine to link the rules as quickly as possible.
On microcomputer (PC 286), an expert system is relatively slow, especially when the rules are numerous and the domain of investigation is large. Thus the idea of applying autonomy and parallelism to the rules ; each rule is automatically compiled with a specific inference engine and a goal. The result, MindSuite Business Rules are faster even on a AT 286.
RETE is the industry standard algorithm for storing rules and monitoring changes to objects rather than rules, resulting in efficient access to rules. Mindsuite rule-engine algorithm, is nearly nine times faster than RETE and can accept unlimited number of rules.
Scientific Journal, July, 1991
