An Interactive Assistant for Decision Making
Abstract
This project involved extending and modifying our previous work on interactive decision-making in TRIPS, the Rochester Interactive Planning System (Ferguson and Allen, 1998; Ferguson, et. al., 1996). The goal was to enable information access to and from remote sources and seamlessly integrate them into the overall system. In this project, we have focused on using Java to facilitate interfacing TRIPS to remote users and, eventually, for integrating additional information sources and reasoners into the system. Java offers potential advantages at several different levels, from the portability of the graphical components, to the simplified networking, all the way to tightly-coupled, object-oriented, method-call inter-module communication. This project was intended to investigate these possibilities, use as many as seem useful and feasible, and provide feedback on the overall suitability of Java in a system like TRIPS. The main goals of the project were: (a) evaluation of Java for use in TRIPS; (b) porting TRIPS interface components to Java to enable remote access to the system; and (c) porting to and evaluation of a Fujitsu 1200 tablet computer with wireless network to enable truly portable access to the system.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA379057
Entities
People
- George M. Ferguson
- James F. Allen
Organizations
- University of Rochester