Zhukov V.V. 1
Novikova G.M. 1
Gitarskaya L.M. 1
Kuznetsova A.V. 1
1 Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education “Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia”
This article is dedicated to expert systems development, specifically to designing technologies and creation toolkit. In the context of this article the experience of several authors in using logic programming toolkit for devolopment expert systems for such domains as jurisprudence and personnel management is being summarized. The paradigm of logic programming as the basis of expert systems development is being justified. Several advantages of modern logic programming environment are being described: such as built-in inferential mechanism, both linguistic and mathematical models support, both complexly structured terms and linguistic variables processing, integration of logic and object-oriented programming paradigms, unified language syntax both to describe the mechanism of work with knowledge base and to create the graphic interface of the expert system. The advantages of development toolkit Visual Prolog are shown by the example of definite expert systems. Visual Prolog not only reduces expenses of production the expert system, but also simplify the development technology, shifting the system development process on to the knowledge engineer in this field.