MELDASH - A DIAGNOSTIC APPLICATION-SPECIFIC EXPERT SYSTEMS SHELL FOR NETWORK FAULT-DIAGNOSIS

Expert systems are receiving considerable interest, but there seems to be a credibility gap between the state-of-the-art technology offered by artificial intelligence and expectations fuelled by potential applications. This is because the emerging technology provides us with very sophisticated programming tools and environments, but with almost no basis on which to program. The computing procedure to be implemented must be specified by the applications. This paper emphasizes the need for an algorithm generation tool and discusses the prospects for the task- and domain-specific expert systems shell MELDASH. A prototype expert system for network fault diagnosis is described to explain the methodology.