Method and system for delineation of structure and linkages between knowledge base modules

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present method and system for delineation of structure and linkages between knowledge base modules provides for generation of a module map, in tabular format, which may be used during the generation of and updating of a modular expert system application.
The module map provides that the user may actuatlly follow inference paths and allows a user to pinpoint any source of inconsistency or unintended inferencing.
More particularly, once a system user identifies a knowledge base composed of a plurality of modules and identifies a start module within the database, the present invention automatically creates the tabular module map.
The module map may include, for example, five columns which contain link code for each module, a numeric code and an alphanumeric label for each label, the name of all external programs called, and the data files for each logic module.
This information provides a complete trace of each inference path in the knowledge base.