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General Electric's Research and Development Center (Schenectady, NY) has developed an expert system which is being used to increase the speed of design of new jet engines, electric motors, and other complex machines. The system, called Engineous, has been used to improve gas turbine designs, resulting in increased fuel efficiency for jet aircraft engines manufactured by GE. The Expert Sniffer, developed by Network General (Menlo Park, CA), is an expert system-based technology that automatically identifies network problems and recommends solutions to network managers. Software based on this technology will be a standard part of the Sniffer Network Analyzer, targeted initially for Ethernet and Token Ring environments. The objective of this project will be to define a standard execution environment for fuzzy systems.