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CCTIS, the Cargo Container Targeting Information System, was developed for the U.S. Customs Service to help monitor and control goods imported by ship. As an expert system, CCTIS has a combination of features which make it of interest to the applied A.I. community. First of all, CCTIS interacts with a large database -- but unlike most data-oriented expert systems CCTIS is used in a transactions-oriented environment and needs the speed of such a system. Secondly, there exists no single cognitive model for the domain of import control, and it is unlikely that such a model can be developed in the near future. To address this problem CCTIS includes the ability for users to weigh and parameterize rules. And thirdly, the information CCTIS uses is often derived from free text of low quality that must be corrected and analyzed through natural language analysis techniques.