REAKT: A real time architecture for knowledge based systems

Expert systems have now reached maturity and an ever growing number of applications make use of this technology. Nevertheless, specific requirements of real time applications have significantly slowed down the use of these techniques in this area: this is first due to incompatibilities between time and memory requirements of AI algorithms and real time specificities, but also to a lack of adaptation to the growing complexity of these systems.

In this paper a real time architecture for Knowledge Based Systems: REAKT (Real Time Knowledge Tool) which aims at combining the expressiveness and power of Knowledge Based Systems with the efficiency and predictability of real time systems is presented.