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The project is large and has a number of components that have been documented at length. These components have never been drawn together in one document; thus, this article describes the project and gives a taste of the individual subprojects that have kept the project members so busy for so long. A large number of publications have emerged from the project, so a full bibliography of the work appears for the reader who wants to follow up on any intriguing topics. AAP straddles a number of research areas and, thus, does not fall easily into any one sphere of interest. A certain amount of work has been done on the parallelizing of expert systems, most notably by Gupta (1986).