EXPERT SYSTEM FOR EVALUATION OF EXPERIMENTAL UNCERTAINTY FROM EXFOR FILE


Yuji Uenohara, Mitsuhaya Tsukamoto, Toshiya Mori, Mitsuru Kihara, and Yukinori Kanda

Department of Energy Conversion Engineering, Kyushu University
Kasuga, Fukuoka 816, Japan


An expert system have been designed to estimate experimental uncertainties from comments and numerical data in EXFOR files. The expert system designed in the present work has knowledge bases and inference engines written in the computer programming language LISP. Scarce information in the report to be demanded in evaluation of errors is inferred and implemented from the other information given in the same report. The expert system is programmed to conduct reasonably these processes. Typical examples are presented.

KEYWORDS: Expert System, Production Rule, LISP, Covariance, Nuclear Data