Extend the CLIPS rules given in Section 9.5 to produce a more useful system for running an elevator on a building with five floors.

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9.5 CLIPS (C Language Integrated Production System) CLIPS is a freely available expert system shell that has been implemented in C. It provides a language for expressing rules and mainly uses forward chaining to derive conclusions from a set of facts and rules. The notation used by CLIPS is very similar to that used by LISP. The fol- lowing is an example of a rule specified using CLIPS: (defrule birthday (firstname ?rl John) (surname ?rl Smith) (haircolor ?rl Red) => (assert (is-boss ?rl))) ?rl is used to represent a variable, which in this case is a person. Assert is used to add facts to the database, and in this case the rule is used to draw a conclusion from three facts about the person: If the person has the first name John, has the surname Smith, and has red hair, then he is the boss. This can be tried in the following way: (assert (firstname x John)) (assert (surname x Smith)) (assert (haircolor x Red)) (run) At this point, the command (facts) can be entered to see the facts that are contained in the database: CLIPS> (facts) f-0 (firstname x John) f-1 (surname x Smith) f-2 (haircolor x Red) f-3 (is-boss x)