BABYLON Version 2.2

BABYLON is a modular, configurable, hybrid environment for developing expert systems. It provides the following knowledge representation formalisms: objects, rules with forward and backward chaining, Prolog and constraints. BABYLON is implemented and embedded in Common Lisp.

For a description of the knowledge representation formalisms, the interpreters, and the use of BABLYON on the MAC, see the enclosed MS WORD (Macintosh version) documents in the folder Docs-and-Readme.

The folder BABYLON-2.2 contains all the sources that are needed to compile and run BABYLON on different hard and software platforms (Mac, TI, Symbolics 36XX, Sun).

BABYLON 2.2 is the successor version of BABYLON 2.1.7. It now runs under Common Lisp II implementations, for example Macintosh Common Lisp 2.0 (MCL) or Allegro Version 4.x.

More details about BABYLON can be found in:

Christaller, T., Di Primio, F., Voß, A. (eds). The AI-Workbench BABYLON. Academic Press, London, to appear 1992;

or

Guesgen, H.-W., CONSAT: A system for constraint satisfaction. Research Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufman, San Mateo, 1989.

BABYLON is publicly available under similar terms as the X Window System.

In case of problems get in touch with:

Juergen Walther AI Research Division GMD (German National Research Center for Computer Science) PO Box 1316 D-5205 Sankt Augustin 1 Germany e-mail: juergen@gmdzi.gmd.de

or

Marc Linster (same address) e-mail: linster@gmdzi.gmd.de