SHINE provides a variety of facilities for the development of software modules for the primary functions in knowledge-based reasoning engines.
The system may be used to develop artificial intelligence applications as well as specialized tools for research efforts.
SHINE is an expert system and inference engine based upon the experience, requirements and technology that were collected by the Artificial Intelligence Research group at NASA/JPL in developing expert systems for the diagnosis of spacecraft health.
[1] SHINE is based on technology first developed by James and Atkinson for the "STAR*TOOL" system.
[2] SHINE itself resulted from applying this technology in a project called "Spacecraft Health Automated Reasoning Pilot" (SHARP).