Author(s)

Julia Johnson, Tim Derzaph & Jon Firor

Abstract

The national telecommunications infrastructure is increasing rapidly in complexity and the numbers of interconnected networks. To ensure high quality telecommunications service, Dr. Johnson and her students are developing an expert system that monitors evolution of the network and rejects proposals for evolution that violate rules that are built into the system. They are using an object-oriented graphical language for the rules and for constructing the user interface. Initially, they are concerned with changing network topologies and the software developed is called an expert system for network configuration. This is one par

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