Title :
GUS: A graphical system for capturing structural knowledge about communications networks
Author :
Meyer, Robert A.
Author_Institution :
Clarkson Univ., Potsdam, NY, USA
Abstract :
A graphical user interface for structural knowledge, GUS, which provides an interactive mouse and menu-driven interface for capturing the structural knowledge for a specific application domain is presented. This domain is a large-scale communications network system. GUS is implemented on a Symbolics 3670 Lisp machine in Zetalisp. A combination of the mouse, menus, window system, and object-oriented flavors package provide the necessary tools for building GUS. User interaction is primarily by manipulation of a mouse-controlled cursor. Components are selected with the mouse for addition from a library of component icons and then positioned on the drawing area. A critical evaluation and comparison with other similar tools is also presented
Keywords :
computer graphics; expert systems; telecommunication networks; telecommunications computing; user interfaces; GUS; Symbolics 3670 Lisp machine; Zetalisp; application domain; component icons; expert system; graphical user interface; interactive mouse; large-scale communications network system; menu-driven interface; mouse-controlled cursor; object oriented flavours package; structural knowledge; window system; Buildings; Circuit faults; Communication networks; Communication system control; Control systems; Integrated circuit interconnections; LAN interconnection; Libraries; Mice; Problem-solving;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 1988. ICC '88. Digital Technology - Spanning the Universe. Conference Record., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.1988.13838
