FuzzyCLIPS Version 6.02
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FuzzyCLIPS is an enhanced version of CLIPS developed at the National
Research Council of Canada to allow the implementation of fuzzy expert
systems. The modifications made to CLIPS contain the capability of
handling fuzzy concepts and reasoning. It enables domain experts to
express rules using their own fuzzy terms. It allows any mix of fuzzy
and normal terms, numeric-comparison logic controls, and uncertainties
in the rule and facts. Fuzzy sets and relations deal with fuzziness in
approximate reasoning, while certainty factors for rules and facts
manipulate the uncertainty. The use of the above modifications are
optional and existing CLIPS programs still execute correctly.
Licence Requirements
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This software is provided by The National Research Council of Canada
(called NRC) whose address for communications with respect to this
software is:
Knowledge Systems Laboratory
Institute for Information Technology
National Research Council Canada
Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1A 0R6
Electronic mail: fzclips@ai.iit.nrc.ca
Title and Conditions
NRC provides a fully paid up and non exclusive licence to the software
package with the following conditions:
1. The software will be used for educational and research purposes only.
2. The licence does not include the right to sublicence the software, or
to make it available for independent use by third parties outside the
recipient organization.
3. Copies of the software may be made for use within the recipient
organization, however, copyright remains with NRC.
4. All publications arising from the use of the software shall duly
acknowledge such use in accordance with normal practices followed in
scientific research publications.
5. The software is provided in its current state and NRC assumes no
obligation to provide services, for example maintenance or updates.
6. All users are requested to provide their name, the name of their
organization and a mailing or email address so that we may track
the use of the software as well as provide information to users
as updates and enhancements are made.
Record of Use
Users are requested to inform NRC of any corrections, changes or extensions
to the software. NRC would also appreciate being informed of noteworthy uses.
Value of the Software
This software is considered to have no market value.
Warranty
NRC disclaims any warranties, expressed, implied, or statutory, of any kind
or nature with respect to the software, including without limitation any
warranty of fitness for a particular purpose. NRC shall not be liable in any
event for damages, whether direct or indirect, special or general,
consequential or incidental, arising from the use of the software.
Access & Installation Information
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FuzzyCLIPS has been successfully compiled and tested on the following
machines:
Sun Sparc workstations (using cc compiler)
IBM PC DOS machines (using Borland C++ 4.0)
Macintosh II (using the MPW C 3.3 compiler)
FuzzyCLIPS is available via anonymous ftp from ai.iit.nrc.ca and via the
World Wide Web (WWW) using URL designation
http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/fuzzy/fuzzy.html
After connecting to the system with ftp do the following:
1. cd pub/fzclips
2. binary (binary transfers are required)
3. get fzclips.tar.Z (unix version - compiled for sun workstation
- tar'd and compressed)
or
get fzclips.sea.hqx (Macintosh version - self extracting archive
format created with Stuffit Deluxe which
has been converted to binhex format)
or
get fzclips.exe (PC version - self extracting archive format
created with PAK)
or
get fzclips.doc.ps (FuzzyCLIPS documentation - postscript file)
The documentation is only included with the unix version (fzclips.tar.Z
- both postscript format and framemaker format). If the framemaker files
are required by others then they can be made available on request.
If using the WWW to access FuzzyCLIPS you will be prompted to provide your
name and address of your organization and then will be able to access one
or all of the documents.
On a unix system the following commands are used to install FuzzyCLIPS.
uncompress fzclips.tar.Z (not required if accessed from WWW since
decompression will already be done)
tar -xvf fzclips.tar
Please note that the executables (FZ_CLIPS_shower and FZ_XCLIPS_shower)
are compiled for the Sun OS. In particular they are compiled with
a simulator and interface for a shower control problem that requires
that NeWS be available on the Sun workstation. This means that the
version of Sun OS must be prior to Solaris 2 which has dropped support
for NeWS. Therefore if you have another unix platform (HP, SGI, etc.)
or Sun OS without support for NeWS you will need to make a new version
of the executables. See the file makefile.x and create a FZ_CLIPS or
FZ_XCLIPS version without the shower GUI cod. Note that it will
be necessary to set the appropriate flags in setup.h and main.c or xmain.c
as indicated in the comments in makefile.x. In setup.h it is necessary
to also set the flag ANSI_COMPILER correctly as well as the flag which
identifies your operating system (e.g. UNIX_V).
On a Macintosh system use a Binhex program to extract the fzclips.sea
file then double-click on the fzclips.sea file and it will
automatically uncompress and install the system. Note that if you
have a version of the Stuffit file compression program you could
extract only the parts that you need instead of the entire system.
On a PC system the program fzclips.exe when executed will uncompress and
install the FuzzyCLIPS system. Execute the program with the following
commands:
mkdir /fzclp602 - create a directory for the files to be unpacked
into; the fzclips.exe file should be in this
directory
cd /fzclp602
fzclips /path - the /path is necessary to recreate the correct
directory structure; if omitted then all files
will be placed in the current directory without
any sub-directories.
If you have a version of the PAK archiving/compression program then you
could extract only the parts that you need instead of the entire system.