Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
1-31-1988
Degree Name
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering - (M.S.)
Department
Electrical Engineering
First Advisor
Asghar Ibn Noor
Second Advisor
Peter Engler
Abstract
A knowledge based system has been developed to enable an architectural designer to select an adequate interconnection network to be utilized in a parallel or distributed processing system. It is implemented using the Knowledge Engineering Environment, K.E.E., package from IntelliCorp.
The user will interact with the system through symbolic representation. From the selected symbols, the knowledge base system will identify the most appropiate network for the given application. The system will display the network topology along with all the information and results of all pertinent calculations corresponding to the given network. The program will also display the rule driven search strategy that was invoked during the decision task. The knowledge based system uses forward chaining to carry out a search on its data base in order to match the architectural designer's expectations to the description of a specific interconnection network. This is a better approach, since the program starts with an abstract representation of an interconnection network, and it returns the specific description of a selected interconnection network.
The program is menu driven, and the user has control over the entire processing environment.
Recommended Citation
Arruza, Bernabe Javier, "Multaid, a consultant for multi-microprocessor network selection" (1988). Theses. 3006.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/3006
