Comnes Co., Ltd

Mamoru Kawanobe

Masatoshi Itoh

Seitaro Matsushita

The present invention relates to an electronic catalog data creating and/or displaying apparatus and method. The electronic catalog data creating apparatus comprises a user interface through which a user enters parts data and a data converter which converts data, entered through the user interface, to a predetermined data format. The user interface, in turn, comprises a property data input unit for receiving part property characteristics and its contents and a value range input unit for receiving the range of input or presentation values or presentation conditions of each property entered through the property data input unit. The value range input unit also has a plurality of fields, each of which will accept the following three code descriptions: a code description indicating a value range check condition, a code description indicating a value range to be used when the value range check condition is satisfied, and a code description indicating a value range to be used when the value range check condition is not satisfied. On the other hand, the data converter comprises a condition expression converting unit. The condition expression converting unit searches for a code entered through the value range input unit and converts the value range check condition or the value range to a predetermined data structure description according to a specified content indicated by the code.

Electronic catalog data creating and/or displaying apparatus and method

A knowledge base system for building a knowledge base. The knowledge base system includes an interface device that receives said knowledge base by a user, and a generating device that generates a program based upon the knowledge base. The interface device includes a field that stores an output knowledge variable, input and local fields that store knowledge variables for operating the output knowledge variables, and a field that stores a computing equation of declarative representation that utilizes knowledge variables using operands as other knowledge variables. The generating device includes a translating device that translates the computing equation of declarative representation into a computer program, a retrieving device that retrieves a dependence of the output knowledge variable on other knowledge variables, and a setting device that sets an execution sequence of the computer program for instructing an input request and computation with reference to the dependence, in which the knowledge base system includes at least one alternative solution.

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Higashiyamato, Japan

Mamoru Kawanobe