An Expertly Assisted Man-machine Interface for Network Environments (EXAMINE) will assist users of large heterogeneous database networks. EXAMINE is specified to be a layered man-computer interface. Due to the requirement that the system must be adaptive to the user and the context derived from the user's information environment, expert system technology is being applied. This paper describes the user's problems in using distributed heterogeneous database networks and some of the details of EXAMINE functionality to solve these problems.
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