An object-oriented environment for multiple AI paradigms

Abstract

Consideration is given to EDS/OWL, an object-oriented environment which provides a uniform framework for integrating programming paradigms. The authors describe how EDS/OWL integrates access-oriented, rule-based and logic programming in an object-oriented environment. The integration extends the underlying language yet continues to use the existing constructs as well as the parser, interpreter and tools. Moreover, the object-oriented framework supports further novel extensions frequently required by specific artificial-intelligence (AI) applications.<>