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Object Systems for Knowledge Representation (PORK and SCAM)
This project is no longer active.

Head: Stephen Smith

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated center: CIMDS
Associated lab/group: Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory

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Project Description

Developing complex object-oriented software with complex knowledge representation functions requires powerful object system support. To support our software efforts we have developed object systems that in various ways help us use frame-like features in our implementations:

• PORK ("Programmable Objects for Representing Knowledge") is an extension of CLOS that introduces some features of frame systems to CLOS-programming. Rather than being a programmable frame-system, PORK is a programming system with support for frame-based programming.
• SCAM ("Substitute for CRL And More") is simple a substitute for CRL (which used to be the main knowledge representation tool used in our software development). SCAM allows one to quickly port CRL-based software to non-CRL enviroments (Allegro CL, Macintosh Common Lisp).

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Stephen Smith	Research Professor	sfs@cs.cmu.edu