Expert system for IE student advisement

Student advising is a key function within an academic environment. An expert system may be used as a first line of response to students' advising needs. The system currently under development, uses hypermedia as the interface between user and hidden expert system routines. Hypermedia allows use of user oriented facilities (icon driven menus, branching following user requests, digitized photographs, video discs, animation, etc). The software architecture chosen is that of a hypergraph with embedded, distributed expert systems.