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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5321620 | Inference planning system Data for production is input by and input device 3 and stored in a data base 1 for planning. Knowledge for planning is also input by the input device 3 and stored in a knowledge base 2 for planning. An inference engine 6 automatically makes and modifies t... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5283746 | Manufacturing adjustment during article fabrication The use of neural networks has been employed to adjust processing during the fabrication of articles. For example, in the production of photolithographic masks by electron beam irradiation of a mask blank in a desired pattern, electrons scattered from the... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5148370 | Expert system and method for batch production scheduling and planning A method employed by an expert system for batch scheduling the multiple-pass manufacture of a plurality of parts (12) by at least one parts process (22), where the parts (12) have a plurality of delivery dates and the parts (12) and parts processor (22) h... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5053970 | Work scheduling method In a scheduling system, constraints changing based on situations and scheduling know-how are implemented according to the knowledge engineering method, whereas computations for the concrete, optimal allocation are conducted according to the mathematical p... | 10/01/1991 |
| 4937755 | Production system for an expert system A production system for an expert system comprising: a production rule memory unit storing circuit conversion rules, each having a condition part describing circuit connection and an execution part describing a conversion of the condition part to an equiv... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4916637 | Customized instruction generator Customized instructions for installation of a device having multiple variable components is described, and are generated by an instruction generator program. A device description file lists a desired set of components for the device. Each of the component... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4591983 | Hierarchical knowledge system A knowledge system has a hierarchical knowledge base comprising a functional decomposition of a set of elements into subsets over a plurality of hierarchical levels, a plurality of predefined functions or conditions of the elements within the subsets of a... | 05/27/1986 |
