some logic resolution engines that'll run within common lisp --- SNARK ------------------------------- Runs under clisp; there are some examples ... but docs are slim. Can understand TPTP (Tons of Problems for Theorem Provers) format, KIF (Knowledge Interchange Format) http://www.ai.sri.com/~stickel/snark.html http://www.ai.sri.com/~stickel/snark.tar.gz http://www.ai.sri.com/snark/tutorial/tutorial.html I have written a simplified interface to snark, which is in the snark-..../ directory. A clisp memory image of snark+aima+jims_simple_kb is kb.mem . $ clisp -M kb -m 200MB *** clisp + aima + snark + jim's simple kb *** [1]> (load "curiosity_cat" :verbose nil) T [2]> (ask '(kills curiosity tuna)) T ---- Lisa -------------------------------------- http://lisa.sourceforge.net/ Sep 2007 lisa-32.tgz docs: http://lisa.sourceforge.net/ref-guide.html "monkey and bananas" http://lisa.sourceforge.net/mab.lisp