Accession Number:

ADA090790

Title:

On the Suitability of ADA for Artificial Intelligence Applications

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.

Corporate Author:

SRI INTERNATIONAL MENLO PARK CA

Personal Author(s):

• Schwartz, Richard L.
• Melliar-Smith, P. M.

Report Date:

1980-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

37.0

Abstract:

This report summarizes the results of our analysis of the suitability of the Department of Defense DOD programming language Ada for Artificial Intelligence AI applications. As ada is expected to become a major programming language in the 1980s with widespread usage in both the military and commercial sectors, a reasonable question to be asked is whether Ada could benefit the efforts of AI system development or transfer. A large store of language and environment support tools are expected to appear within the next several years. The ability for the AI community to avail themselves of such technology would serve the needs of both AI systems developers and the ultimate recipients of the developed technology. In this report, we consider the suitability of the Preliminary Ada Language Specification either as a language for the development of AI systems or as a language for the transfer of already-developed AI technology. We focus our attention on the language capabilities required to support AI paradigms and their realization in Ada.

Descriptors:

• *ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• *COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
• *HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES
• ALGORITHMS
• COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
• DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
• FEEDBACK
• HEURISTIC METHODS
• MULTIPROCESSORS
• REAL TIME
• SPECIFICATIONS
• SUBROUTINES
• SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software
• Computer Hardware

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE