RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

AI activities are also being pursued at other Schlumberger locations, often jointly with SDR The locations related to logging and interpretation include: Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield, Connecticut (Contact: Peter Wu'l); Schlumberger Well Services, Austin, Texas (Contact: Scott Gut/my); Schlumberger Well Services, Houston, Texas (Contact: Scott Ma&s); Nippon Schlumberger, K K, Tokyo, Japan (Contact: Dennzs O'NezU); I&ude et Production Schlumbcraer. Other Schlumberger companies involied in Ai research include! Expert Systems Current work in expert, systems is concerned with developing techniques for building more robust and versatile log interpretation systems. One shortcoming of "first generation" expert systems, such as the Dipmeter Advisor, is their inability to reason about the task that they attempt to perform. Any description of the overall task is usually procedurally encoded and unavailable for examination.