Major components

The major components of ECliPS are: Data Explorer, Rule (or Knowledge) Explorer, Inference Engine, Graphical Interface, Search and Reporting Facilities. In many respects ECliPS is similar to an typical expert or decision support system, but unlike other commercial expert systems, both the knowledge presentation and inference process in ECliPS are more transparent to the user, and it is much easier to use. In this section we describe the first two components, Data and Rule Explorers, which help to manage the data and knowledge bases, respectively. Other components will be briefly discussed in the next section that explains how the system arrives to its conclusions.