A Knowledge-Based Applications Suite

Here you can find out all about our experiment in knowledge-based design. The information management component for a major new instrument was an opportunity for us to try 'a better way' of handling documentation, user interface design, and other software project tasks. We're happy with the results, and our success is due in large part to our use of Tcl. This page has had 2064 visits so far.

• A War (and Success) Story
  If you would enjoy an informal narrative description of our project, then read The Long Story here.
• Keywords/Memes: A General-Purpose Data Dictionary
  This page (Memes Detail) gets into the details of the Memes database and its products. Live demos, sample output, and source code.
• Memes and Agents: Describing Information Flow
  This page (Digraph Tools) gets into the details of the Agents/Paths component of the 'Memes World' and the generation of documentary function diagrams. Live demos and source code.
• DashBoard: A Soft User Interface
  This page (DashBoard) gets into the details of the Dashboard UI, including sample screens and source code. Sorry, no live demos :-)
• CodeGen: Generating Source Code
  This page (Code Generator) explains some work in progress: we generate source files in C and other languages for use in building our large realtime systems. The knowledge base is used to generate the source code.
• Where Do I Go From Here?
  This page (Acquire and Adapt) offers helpful suggestions to those of you who may be wondering whether you could use some of this software at your own site.