IntelliCorp (IC) was an American software company based in

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. It sold its assets including LiveCompare, LiveModel and LiveInterface to Tricentis in May 2019.

History

Founded in 1980, IC marketed an early expert system environment ( Knowledge Engineering Environment – KEE) for development and deployment of knowledge systems on the

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that had several advanced features, such as truth maintenance. KEE used the backward-chaining method of Mycin which had been developed at

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. While moving KEE functionality to the PC, IC created one of the early object-oriented technologies for commercial programming development environments (LiveModel). The company was also one of the

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, a consortium which helped develop the standards for UML, the

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. In May 2019, IC completed the sale of its assets including LiveCompare, LiveModel and LiveInterface to Tricentis.

References

{{reflist Software companies based in California Software companies established in 1980 1980 establishments in California Defunct software companies of the United States