A software tool for developing distributed networked real-time artificial intelligence applications

The Activation Framework (AF) is a new software tool for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) applications which can execute on a geographically distributed heterogeneous network of communicating processors. The AF consists of tools for compiling groups of expert-system if. . .then. . .else. . . rules into executable code modules, for automatically generating C code modules from high-level system configuration descriptions, and for automatically generating makefiles for program compilation and linking on each processor. It also includes an operating system environment which integrates the estimated 70% of code which is common from one real-time AI application to the next. AF also includes support libraries which provide extensive functionality which is common from application to application.<>