Knowledge, Workflow and Process Management

• Bentley Systems, Inc.
  Application: PlantWise
  Bentley's PlantWise product is a knowledge-based application for plant concept design. PlantWise produces routed pipes, flexible reports, and exportable data files to any external plant design system. The system offers speed of routing, user changeable piping logic, and high level GUIs that greatly increase productivity. This productivity advantage is facilitated by the task-specific languages that PlantWise provides. Engineers can use the keywords and expressions familiar to them to express the logic they want to use. PlantWise is built on top of Design++.

• Cognition Corporation
  Application: Cost Advantage™
  Cost Advantage™ is a powerful Design for Manufacturability (DFM) expert system powered by Allegro CL. The system captures manufacturing process knowledge and leverages that information to identify and reduce costs at every stage of a product's life cycle.

• Design Power, Inc.
  Application: Design++
  Design++ enables engineers involved with plant, building and equipment design to create intelligent object models that automatically generate complex 3D designs, materials and cost reports, and fully annotated design drawings. Design++ customers include major players in the A/E/C and manufacturing industries working on projects in automatic process equipment design, automatic building systems design, automatic electric motor configuration, and automatic pipe routing systems for process plants.

• Domain Manufacturing, Inc.
  Application: Patterns™ Manufacturing Process Control System
  Domain's Patterns application, developed using Allegro CL, is a real-time pattern application designed for process monitoring and fault detection in manufacturing processes in various industries. Currently targeted at the semiconductor industry, the Patterns application provides manufacturers with a dynamic system that monitors processes and reports process modifications as they happen.

• France Telecom R&D
  Application: Recife
  A Decision Support System (DSS) built as an internal tool by France Telecom, Recife manages and routes all demands for new digital and video connections in the Greater Paris network.

• Genworks International
  Application: GDL/GWL (General-purpose Declarative Language and Generative Web Language)
  GDL/GWL (General-purpose Declarative Language and Generative Web Language) is a Knowledge Base development environment that features an integrated web server-based user interface. GDL/GWL provides a complete environment for the development of business and engineering applications, covering areas traditionally serviced by specialized KBE (Knowledge-based Engineering), ERP (Enterprise Resource Management), and CRM (Customer Relations Management) software packages.

• KETL
  Application: Knowledge Engineering Toolkit & Language
  The Knowledge Engineering Toolkit & Language (KETL) is a representation language and inference engine being developed to support a broad range of knowledge-management tasks. The logic-based representation language provides expressive power similar to CycL, with 2nd-order syntax and 1st-order semantics. Assertions are fully represented objects. Contexts are supported for assertions (similar to Microtheories in CycL). The inference engine is relatively primitive but provides basic inference capabilities and is being extended. It currently supports transitive binary predicates (e.g., subClass), extension predicates (e.g., isa), inheritance, with emerging support for rules and prototypes, truth maintenance, and explanations.

• KnowledgeTools International
  Application: LOGOS - Management Instruments for Complex Cases
  LOGOS creates transparency, helps to control risks, reduces legal fees and ensures quality. On the server side, the system is based on Allegro Common Lisp communicating with a MySQL database. The communication between client and server is done via HTTP. You can use LOGOS as an online service with secure transmission channels or install the server software locally on your network. In all cases, all of the users will be granted easy and remote access to the application and data. It enables individual persons or arbitrarily large teams to access a central knowledge base and to save expensive material procurement.

• KPN Research
  Application: Portable Webpage Recommender System
  KPN Research used Lisp and Allegro CL to create a bookmark-based browser interface that could be tailored to provide recommendations of interesting web sites based on the their customers' interests and surfing patterns, yet was as easy to use as a television remote. The base technology for this product, a Recommender System, monitors user behaviour and generate recommendations of web pages for each user. This process consists of the following distinct parts: user profiling, content profiling and matching.

• Knowledge Technologies International (KTI, formerly Concentra)
  Application: ICAD
  ICAD is an object-oriented engineering software solution for the aerospace, automotive, industrial equipment, and construction industries. KTI's customers are able to close the design technology gap by automating the concept phase of a new design project, where 80% of the project cost gets committed. By capturing the knowledge of project engineers in a Dynamic Objects modeling language, ICAD enables engineers to truly automate all repetitive tasks, build applications that capture best practices, and institutionalize routine operations to create a 'virtual product model' that can be reused for future projects.

• Linköping University
  Application: LEORDO Computation Platform
  Leordo is the Distribution Version of the full Leonardo system. The Leonardo computation system is intended as a platform for applications that make use of a knowledgebase. Possible applications include:

  • Personal assistant systems that help their users to keep track of a miscellany of things of various kinds and to operate on this information
  • Knowledge-based autonomous agents
  • Semantic web systems
  • Tutorial systems for use in university courses in these areas

• Mathematical Systems Inc.
  Application: Honda Car Test Database System
  Mathematical Systems Inc.'s application gives Honda an innovative system that uses many elements to help Honda design safer cars.

• Mosaix, Inc.
  Application: Agent Effectiveness Applications (AEA)
  Mosaix is a preferred provider of world-class call management systems and customer relationship management applications that enable enterprises to profitably acquire, retain, and develop customer relationships.

• Performigence Corp.
  Application: ProcessGenius™ process management system.
  ProcessGenius software is used by customers to capture, communicate and manage their process knowledge. ProcessGenius reduces training costs, provides faster execution of procedures, decreases the number of mistakes by workers, and monitors compliance to best practices and quality standards. ProcessGenius empowers customers to create and deploy intelligent interactive applications on their operations. To help you visualize how customers use ProcessGenius, first imagine an organization with software applications used to document its processes, capture and communicate improvements, train people on operations, and help users solve problems, perform tasks and make decisions on the job.

• Planisware
  Application: Planisware 5
  Planisware uses Lisp and Allegro CL to create Planisware 5, the leading Enterprise level Project Management and Support System. Planisware 5 provides necessary information and simulation tools for decision making, strategic planning and project prioritization; and includes both an enterprise project control system and portfolio management capabilities for corporate governance.

• Signal Insurance
  Application: SIGNAL System
  The Signal information system provides information to the customer representatives (on assets, policy offers, deadlines, etc.) and also computes premiums, drafts offers, and performs other knowledge-based tasks. Because each sales situation must be treated individually, the cost of sales can be sharply reduced with a knowledge-based information system that can help sales representatives gather personal information about the customer, and compute benefit analyses based on this and other data. Running the system on laptop computers enables the representatives to take their expert system on the road.

• Square USA Inc.
  Application: Phantom
  Animation Production Management used in creating the 2001 feature film, Final Fantasy

• The Laboratory for Intelligent Processes and Systems and the University of Texas at Austin
  Application: Requirements and Integration Verification Tool (RIVT)
  Engineers responsible for designing systems can use RIVT to "define, modify, and evaluate system component designs and then integrate respective components into an overall system design," according to Dr. Suzanne Barber, Director of The Laboratory for Intelligent Processes and Systems and program lead for the RIVT project. RIVT is particularly useful in industries such as automobile, aircraft, missile design, semiconductor manufacturing, and healthcare where designing and evaluating system architectures are critical. The knowledge representation capabilities of Allegro CL were key to building the requirements-driven system design of RIVT.

• Thumbprint Software LLC
  Application: Thumbprint CPM
  A dynamic process knowledgebase that describes what a company or department does, Thumbprint CPM is also the platform for an automated website that becomes a management and communication hub.

• University of Hartford
  Application: GenEth
  GenEth enables the analysis of ethical dilemmas of a particular type, or types, and the discovery of a decision principle to resolve them that is consistent with information gleaned from them.

• University of Southern California
  Application: LOOM
  Loom is a language and environment for constructing intelligent applications. The heart of Loom is a knowledge representation system that is used to provide deductive support for the declarative portion of the Loom language. Declarative knowledge in Loom consists of definitions, rules, facts, and default rules. A deductive engine called a classifier utilizes forward-chaining, semantic unification and object-oriented truth maintenance technologies in order to compile the declarative knowledge into a network designed to efficiently support on-line deductive query processing.

• University of Wyoming Applied AI Lab
  Application: CARMA
  Wyoming ranchers have a new source of expert advice in responding to grasshopper infestations thanks to the Case-based Range Management Advisor (CARMA).