GlovES+ expert system

An expert system, named "GlovES+," has been written to provide reliable selections of chemical protective clothing for a wide variety of chemicals. The system conducts "intelligent searches" which emulate a human expert s decision path in evaluating a large database from an electronic publication by Forsberg. 

RuleMaker, a subsystem of RuleMaster, induces rules for all situations from examples that may cover only some of the cases. At the heart of the induction process is the creation of an induction file, which in part includes examples indicating what the expert system should do under different circumstances. Now, in the example above, THE RULES FOR CORRELATING VARIOUS CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PARAMETERS OF THE HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS TESTED WITH THE PROTECTIVE ABILITY OF THE SELECTED GLOVE MATERIALS ARE NOT KNOWN — THEY WILL HAVE TO BE INDUCED FR04 THE ANALYTICAL DATA. 

The second component of the computerized system is an expert system called GlovEs, which, given a set of initial conditions or parameters, screens the information in the data base and makes recommendations based on the needs as defined by the user of the system. The system allows considerable flexibility in seeking information and quickly provides the data in a useful form. The program runs on a standard IBM or compatible PC. 

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