Contents

• Contents
• List of Figures
• Introduction
  • The main goals
• Expert systems
  • Expert systems concept
  • Knowledge acquisition
  • Knowledge representation
    • Frames
    • Semantic networks
    • Production rules and logic
    • Decision tables
    • Decision trees
    • A new approach: the tree-table representation
  • Rule-based systems
    • Introduction
    • Inference
    • Models for rule interpreters
    • Some definitions
• Kheops
  • Overview
  • Developing rules
    • Introduction
    • The dictionary
    • Rules
  • Usage of Kheops
  • Compilation and code generation
  • gKheops - a graphical user interface
• Osiris design
  • Main goals
  • Design specification
    • Interface
  • Detailed design specification
    • Controller - how to control and not to be controlled
    • Editor - developing of rule
    • Validator - checking
    • Generator - code generation
    • Internal communication
    • External communication
    • Graphical and user friendly interface
• Implementation
  • Choosing the environment
  • Choosing tools
    • Tools
    • Free Software
  • An Overview of the implementation
  • GTK - developing user interface
    • Introduction to GTK
    • Glade - a user interface builder
  • UNIX® Inter-process communication
    • Basic concepts
    • Creating pipes in C language
  • Flex & Bison
    • Flex - generating scanners
    • Bison - generating parsers
  • Internal communication of Osiris
  • External communication of Osiris
    • General idea
    • gKheops modifications
  • Main function
  • Controller
    • GUI
    • Launching other modules
  • Datafile
    • Introduction to XML
    • Specification
  • Editor
    • Overview
    • Drawing Area
  • Validator
  • Generator
  • Launcher
• Osiris user's guide
  • Compilation and installation
    • Requirements
    • Compilation
    • Installation
  • Using the GUI
    • Controller
    • Editor
    • Generator, Validator
    • Example
• Summary
  • Meeting the requirements
  • Future improvements
    • Editor
    • Validator
• Bibliography
• Complete Osiris source code tree
• GTK
  • Using GTK
    • Main loop
    • Signals and Call-backs
    • Widgets
    • Advanced data manipulation
  • GDK - Gimp Drawing Kit
  • GLib
    • An Overview
    • Doubly linked lists
    • Memory allocation
    • String handling functions
• Osiris datafile grammar
• Bison and Flex
  • Flex
  • Bison
  • Flex and Bison working together
• Scanner - the input file for Flex
• Parser - the input file for Bison
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