NEW ARCHITECTURES FOR INFERENCE MECHANISMS

This paper describes a research plan of the inference machine which is one of the subprojects involved in the research and development of the fifth generation computer systems. According to the research plan of whole project, there are two other subprojects concerning to the architectures of the fifth generation computer systems. They are called as the knowledge base machine and the intelligent interface machine. In the final stage of the project, the research results of the inference machine, mixed with the research results of two other machines, will constitute a prototype of the fifth generation computer.