OpenCLIPS is an open source release of the CLIPS expert system shell. Our goal is to build an active community focused around the support and development of CLIPS. Immediate priorities involve integrating backwards chaining into the inference engine and providing an attractive user-interface (Possibly using GTK).

OpenCLIPS was created by the inference engine team of the EGADSS Project. We needed a powerful, robust engine to form the core of our Clinical Decision Support System. CLIPS was a natural fit. Further into the project we plan to extend CLIPS even further with complex uncertainty management. We propose that, as an open source community, we can construct an inference engine equal to any commerical product available.