The graphics advisor: a prototypical advisory expert system

The Graphics Advisor is an expert system that helps users of the Los Alamos Integrated Computing Network select the graphics library that is best suited to the characteristics of a specific graphics application. The implementation of the system, using a commercial expert system development tool, is described. Delivery options are discussed. Although the domain knowledge of the Graphics Advisor is oriented toward libraries that are supported by the Computing and Communications Division at Los Alamos, it exemplifies a class of knowledge-based systems that are potentially useful in a variety of advisory situations.