Hy Anindya,
I guess your question about knowledge based systems is reasonably answered now, at least from the technical point of view, though be it that the term is a bit ambiguous and might consequently be used by people in different contexts (ask a few software engineers and they probably start fighting over it...I did...).
I know not of a lot of structural software packages that might fit that label. So, to answer what you can do with it becomes a bit more problematic. It helps if you can give some more information on where you saw or heard the term.
I will give you one example:
QuickMove, a product recently developed by Midland Valley, is a sort of a knowledge based system, in that it has built-in knowledge that will carry out routines, make decisions on the type of algorithms that are applicable and analyses the results with minimum input from the user. (Basically the expertise, know-how, and workflows we collected over the years is implicitly built in the software, and requires no specialist knowledge of the user). It imports seismic data, cuts the horizons in separate fault blocks, restores the faultblocks (balancing) and produces a goodness of fit, all in 3D visualisation, and most of these routines are automated.
I guess that is as close as it gets to "knowledge based software system for geological structure analysis".
Good luck with your quest,
Carlo
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Dr Carlo Sanders
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Midland Valley Exploration
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-----Original Message-----
From: Anindya Mukherji [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 11:08 AM
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Subject: Knowledge based software systems
I want to know what "KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR GEOLOGICAL
STRUCTURE ANALYSIS" mean. What sort of work can be visualised and worked
upon ?
I shall be extremely grateful if anybody can help and guide me out with
the aforesaid aspect.
Thanks
Anindya Mukherji
Indian Institute Of Technology
Kharagpur
India
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