A shell for the Construction of Knowledge Bases Aimed at Assessing the Behaviour of RC Buildings under Seismic Actions

The work consists in the design and implementation of a shell permitting the
construction of knowledge bases in order to carry out assessments and
simulations using data from the Information System of the GNDT Project. The
shell that is presented in this paper is intended to aid the domain expert in
introducing his expertise, in the form of rules, in a computer system. Special
attention is given to problems regarding knowledge acquisition and its role
within the expert system design and realization. The basic components -
inference engine, knowledge acquisition subsystem, explanation subsystem, user
interface - and some characteristics of the shell under construction are presented,
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