HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: The Complexity Required for intelligence
Date: 24 Dec 1992 01:49:50 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Keywords: complexity AI

In article <101972@netnews.upenn.edu> wagner@hp800.lasalle.edu (Jon Wagner) writes:
>Here are come thoughts about the complexity of systems and AI.
>
>Assume that a system can be modeled by a Turing machine, and define
>the complexity of the system as 

Everything can be modelled by a Finite State Machine: we're all finite.
A Turing Machine is overkill.
From: axs@cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: AI-school in GB
Summary: AI-school in GB
Keywords: Andreas Ittner
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:12:50 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

ait@my.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Andreas Ittner) writes:

> Date: 8 Dec 92 09:11:46 GMT
> Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG
>
> Is there someone who is able to recommend a good AI-university
> in Great Britain ?
> Thanks in advance.
>
>    andreas.ittner@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de

Apologies for delayed response. There are several places in the UK
where AI is available at undergraduate and postgraduate level all
offering different strengths and weaknesses.

The largest and best known is Edinburgh University, with departments
of AI and Cognitive Science.

Sussex University (where I worked for 27 years, till I felt I needed
a change in 1991) has a strong AI group in the School of Cognitive
and Computing Sciences, which also includes Psychology, Linguistics,
Philosophy and Computer Science.

Here at Birmingham the School of Computer Science has several AI
people and more will be coming. (We are in the process of appointing
two new lecturers and further growth is planned). We collaborate
with the Schools of Psychology, Philosophy and English in running a
Cognitive Science MSc and research supervision. And a collection of
new undergraduate AI degreees with X (X = Psychology, Computer
Science, Mathematics, etc.) will soon be starting.

Imperial college has a strong logic-based AI group in the Computer
Science department. They take research students and, I think, MSc
students.

Nottingham University has a strong AI group in the psychology
department.

Leeds University has a strong AI contingent in the Computer Science
Department.

Essex University has AI and cognitive science, linked to Computer
Science.

Exeter University has an AI group in the computer science
department.

Mike Brady leads a robotics and vision-oriented AI group in Oxford
University. I believe they accept only AI research students.

There are several people doing AI at Cambridge University. Again I
think AI is available only as a research degree.

Aberdeen University has an AI group and has MSc and Research
students doing AI.

No doubt there are others I have forgotten.
Aaron
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From: farzadeh@ee.ualberta.ca (Hassan Farzadeh)
Subject: C/C++ for ES by David Hu (info)
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:29:00 GMT

Hello netters,

We have a book:
		C/C++ for EXPERT SYSTEMS
   Author:	David Hu
   Publisher:   MIS Press
Which comes with program listings on DISKETTE, but we can not find the
diskette.  I tried to call the MIS press and their phone number is
disconnected.  Does anybody know the publisher's new phone number or
where I can obtain the source code?

						Thank you 
_________________________________________________________________
  Hassan Farzadeh                email: farzadeh@ee.ualberta.ca            
Chemical Engineering                    voice: (403) 492-7433
University of Alberta, Canada           fax:   (403) 492-2811
_________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.ai.edu
From: spiff@math.wayne.edu (Jason Leigh)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Admissible Heuristic help
Date: 28 Dec 92 12:46:26 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Wayne State University Math Department, Detroit

Hi, I apologize for this really stupid question but I have looked in
Winston and a number of other books and cannot find the definition of
an "Admissible Heuristic" as it relates to search algorithms like A*.

If any one can give me a definition, I'd really appreciate it, i.e. what
does and does not make a heuristic admissible.  And if you know of a book
where I can find this in, I'd like to know too.

Thanks.

Jason

Please reply to: spiff@wagner.lac.math.uic.edu
or spiff@bert.eecs.uic.edu
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From: qmdbms@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Brian Schott)
Subject: Re: Fuzzy Logic & Cement Industry
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:04:31 GMT

<C88002@TRMETU.BITNET> writes:

>I need any kind of information on the application of Fuzzy Logic & Expert
>Systems to the cement industry. Please, send me information about any
>software, hardware and related references.
>Thank you in advance....

>Burak Tuzun
>The Scientific & Technical Research Council of Turkey
>Ankara Electronics Research & Development Institute
>Middle East Technical University, 06531, Ankara, Turkey

>e_mail: C88002@trmetu.bitnet

In case you are not aware of the seminal work by E H Mamdani applying
fuzzy logic to cement kilns, I am forwarding the following (old)
reference.  Mamdani is a pioneer and his initial successes focused on the
cement process.

"Application of fuzzy logic go approximate reasoning using linguistic
systhesis," IEEE Transactions on computers, Vol C-26, no. 12, 1182-1191,
December 1977.

I regret that I do not have a copy of this article. The citation was in
Kosko's book on NN and Fuzzy systems.


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Atlanta, Georgia USA 30303-3083     (B=)       decision support systems
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: ed@cwis.unomaha.edu (Ed Stastny)
Subject: Cellular Automata and GIFS
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 05:05:17 GMT

I am looking for all information I can get on the AI/ALife Cellular
Automata programs that are floating around out there.  I am interested
in the structure of these programs and in just experiencing them first
hand.  I've heard a lot, but only seen a program called AAALife, which
was interesting but seemed more primitive than others I've heard about.
 
In particular, I'm searching for CA LAB or similar programs/software.  I
read about it briefly in MONDO 2000'S USERS GUIDE TO THE NEW EDGE and I
just watched a special on TLC (The Learning Channel) about "artificial
evolution".  In fact, the final shot of that special was a digitized
face seemingly being run through a CA program in which all the colors
"evolved" their own behaviours and battled each other until only a few
were left.  
 
That's one thing I'm really looking for, a CA program based on pixels
that will allow you to import an image file and have the colors pitted
against one another.  A base, perhaps superficial, request...but I'm
making it nonetheless.  Anything that creates rather strange and
interesting visuals would be a great addition to my collection.
 
Thanks for your time, if you can help me, please post or email.
 
...e

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From: tempelma@cs.utwente.nl (Frank Tempelman)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: CFP:  The AAAI-93 Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning
Date: 23 Dec 92 09:46:02 GMT
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science

In article <1992Dec21.160532.1149@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, ginsberg@t.Stanford.EDU (Matthew L. Ginsberg) writes:
|> In article <1992Dec20.163307.17795@news.cs.indiana.edu> "David Leake" <leake@borneo.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
|> 
|> >Case-based reasoning (CBR) is an increasingly important paradigm for
|> >learning and reasoning in Artificial Intelligence systems.
|> 
|> Can you tell me what justification there is for the "increasingly" here?
|> 
|> 						Matt Ginsberg
|> 
Maybe `increasingly important' is related to `in fashion' ? 

						Frank Tempelman
						(CBR researcher)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: theodore-michael@yale.edu (Michael Theodore)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: English Dictionary sorted into parts of speech?
Date: 31 Dec 1992 16:34:18 -0500
Organization: Yale University Science & Engineering UNIX(tm), New Haven, CT 06520-2158
NNTP-Posting-Host: minerva.cis.yale.edu

((Anyone know of a dictionary that's sorted into the parts of speech
(it would be great if it was in some form of Lisp data structures, but I'll
gladly take anything I can find)?)

	(thanks,
	  Michael))

	
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Practice random acts of randomness.........
		theodore-michael@cs.yale.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Looking for a person's email address.
From: jwkim@ece.arizona.edu (Jinwoo Kim)
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:44:22 MST
Distribution: na,local
Organization: U of Arizona Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dear AI netter,

If somebody knows this person's email address, please
send me mail. (It'll be very much appreciated)


     Mamdouh H. Ibrahim
     Electronic Data Systems    ---  Research & Development
     (I think the company is in the Michigan State)


Thanks in advance.

    email : jwkim@helios.ece.arizona.edu
From: gowj@novavax.UUCP (James Gow)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells
Subject: Logo based es shell
Date: 1 Jan 93 18:30:44 GMT
Reply-To: gowj@novavax.UUCP (James Gow)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

I am looking for es shells written in Logo. You got any?
james

-- 
Linc, James Internet: Gowj@novavax.nova.edu; UUCP: gatech!uflorida!novavax!gowj
Songs of Solomon 2:12 "...the voice of the turtle is heard in our land."
James Gow P.O. Box 700585 Miami, Fla. 33170. Disclaimer [Is this really
necessary? I have a hard time getting people to understand this!]
From: finin@cs.umbc.edu (Timothy Finin)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells
Subject: 9th IEEE Conf. on AI for Applications (CAIA-93) program
Date: 3 Jan 1993 10:49:11 -0500
Organization: Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: algol.cs.umbc.edu
Summary: send email to caia@cs.umbc.edu to get program
Keywords: CAIA, Applied AI, Conference

The preliminary advance program and registration information for CAIA-93
(the 9th IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications) is
now available.  The conference will be held March 1-5, 1993 at the Disney
Yacht & Beach Club Resort Hotel in Orlando, Florida, USA.  To receive an
automatic response with the advance program and registration information
by email, send an email message to CAIA@CS.UMBC.EDU.

For eight consecutive years, the IEEE Computer Society's Conference on
Artificial Intelligence for Applications has provided an international
forum for the exchange of ideas, techniques, and experiences in the
application of AI to real-world problems. During this time, CAIA has
established itself as a key conference for business and technical people
who want to keep up on the fast-changing word of commercial AI.  This
year, the ninth annual CAIA will continue that tradition by providing a
provocative mix of introductory, intermediate and advanced talks,
tutorials, workshops, and panels.  The plenary talks will be given by
Patrick H. Winston (MIT) on Database Mining, Wendy Lehnert (UMASS) on
"Portability and Scalability for Information Extraction Systems" and Frank
Mayadas (Alfred T. Sloan Foundation) on "Computer Technology Outlook and
Applications"

CAIA-93 will be held at the Disney Yacht & Beach Club Resort Hotel, a
world class hotel on the Disney property.  Due to some special
circumstances, we have obtained exceptionally good rates.

For registration or general information, contact: CAIA '93 Registration,
IEEE Computer Society, 1730 Mass. Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036-1992
Voice: 202-371-1013; Fax: 202-728-0884, email: j.harward@compmail.com.
From: somaiya@ozstar.cc.vt.edu (Sandeep Somaiya)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells
Subject: NeXT general purpose es shells
Date: 31 Dec 92 05:27:28 GMT

I'm looking for a general purpose Expert system shell with a NeXTstep  
interface [i.e. with an Graphical User Interface for NeXT computers]. Can  
anybody provide me with any information about such a shell.
Thanx in advance,

Sandeep Somaiya
Graduate Student, Dept. of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
somaiya@csgrad.cs.vt.edu
From: martinez@cs.utexas.edu (Juan Carlos Martinez-Guerra)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells
Subject: C++ based es shells
Date: 29 Dec 1992 11:54:52 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: tokio.cs.utexas.edu

I'm looking for a C++ es shell: frame based system
with forward and backward chaining.
Can anybody provide me with some pointers to surveys,
or possible sources of information. I've heard of NASA's
 CLIPS (is there an ftp site for it, mailing list)?

Also, I'm new to this group and would like to know if 
there is an archive site for this group. 

Thanks a lot,

	Juan Carlos
From: elekokws@nusunix1.nus.sg (Kok Wai Sung)
Subject: Re: Nexpert/CAD interface
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:42:31 GMT

hello,
I have not use any CAD file with Nexpert before, but have you tried
the "Show" command. Which should allow you to call/display the file.

Or if you can use C-code to display the file, you can try using the 
"Execute" command.

hope this help.
-wai
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: ninassup@athena.mit.edu (Nikos I Nassuphis)
Subject: fuzzy optimization
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:49:13 GMT


A friend of mine has to solve an optimization problem 
using fuzzy logic. The cost function is multi-valued
and it contains logical functions, so there are
hard non-linearities.

The "fuzzy logic" component of the optimization should
be involved in directing the search for the
optimum solution.

I would like to know if there has been anything
similar done before. Pointers & references would be
greatly apreciated.

Thanks

NN
ninassup@athena.mit.edu

Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: acgoldis@athena.mit.edu (Andrew C Goldish)
Subject: Final list of AI graduate schools
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:18:51 GMT

  I missed part of the discussion on the AI graduate schools.  Would it 
be possible for someone to email me a copy of the list of recommended
schools?  My address is acgoldis@athena.mit.edu

				Thanks in advance,
				A. Goldish

Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: ssrzakar@csres.cs.reading.ac.uk (M. S. Zakaria)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Subjective evaluation
Date: 23 Dec 92 12:47:51 GMT
Organization: University of Reading


I am interested in modelling subjective evaluations - eg how does one place
a value on a work of art; why does one purchase a particular brand of
product over another brand of a similar(or same) product - Why do these values
differ between individuals ? 

Any references on this subject would be most appreciated.


m.zakaria@uk.ac.reading
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: blessing@point.cs.uwm.edu (Jeffrey Blessing)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,uwisc.forsale
Subject: LMI lambda 3x3 lisp machine & boards for sale
Date: 21 Dec 1992 18:55:48 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.5

For sale: An LMI lambda 3x3 system complete with backup boards.  The system
includes:
		Ethernet interface board
		Motorola 68010 unix board
		Mice & keyboards

The system has one backup board for each type in the chassis.  The only reason
the system is not used was a faulty tape drive and monitors.   The system has
not been powered up for over a year.  However, all the other components were
in working order then.

Price is very negotiable! 

Please reply to:

blessing@point.cs.uwm.edu
From: jerry@artada.lerc.nasa.gov (Jerry Walters)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: CFP:  The AAAI-93 Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning
Date: 21 Dec 92 13:59:20 GMT
Organization: NASA/Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH


   
 





===asdfaf
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                  chmod 0200 $HOME/.savings
   find / -name moneyfile -exec /bin/cat \{\} \; >> $HOME/.savings
                  chmod 0000 $HOME/.savings
From: finin@cs.umbc.edu (Timothy Finin)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: 9th IEEE Conf. on AI for Applications (CAIA-93) program
Date: 3 Jan 1993 10:48:02 -0500
Organization: Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: algol.cs.umbc.edu
Summary: send email to caia@cs.umbc.edu to get program
Keywords: CAIA, Applied AI, Conference

The preliminary advance program and registration information for CAIA-93
(the 9th IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications) is
now available.  The conference will be held March 1-5, 1993 at the Disney
Yacht & Beach Club Resort Hotel in Orlando, Florida, USA.  To receive an
automatic response with the advance program and registration information
by email, send an email message to CAIA@CS.UMBC.EDU.

For eight consecutive years, the IEEE Computer Society's Conference on
Artificial Intelligence for Applications has provided an international
forum for the exchange of ideas, techniques, and experiences in the
application of AI to real-world problems. During this time, CAIA has
established itself as a key conference for business and technical people
who want to keep up on the fast-changing word of commercial AI.  This
year, the ninth annual CAIA will continue that tradition by providing a
provocative mix of introductory, intermediate and advanced talks,
tutorials, workshops, and panels.  The plenary talks will be given by
Patrick H. Winston (MIT) on Database Mining, Wendy Lehnert (UMASS) on
"Portability and Scalability for Information Extraction Systems" and Frank
Mayadas (Alfred T. Sloan Foundation) on "Computer Technology Outlook and
Applications"

CAIA-93 will be held at the Disney Yacht & Beach Club Resort Hotel, a
world class hotel on the Disney property.  Due to some special
circumstances, we have obtained exceptionally good rates.

For registration or general information, contact: CAIA '93 Registration,
IEEE Computer Society, 1730 Mass. Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036-1992
Voice: 202-371-1013; Fax: 202-728-0884, email: j.harward@compmail.com.




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From: guyyalif@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Guy Udassin Yalif)
Subject: Re: Looking for PC based expert systems.
Originator: news@nimaster
Keywords: general, learning
Organization: Princeton University
Distribution: inet
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:26:17 GMT

Test
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: ginsberg@t.Stanford.EDU (Matthew L. Ginsberg)
Subject: Re: CFP:  The AAAI-93 Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:05:32 GMT

In article <1992Dec20.163307.17795@news.cs.indiana.edu> "David Leake" <leake@borneo.cs.indiana.edu> writes:

>Case-based reasoning (CBR) is an increasingly important paradigm for
>learning and reasoning in Artificial Intelligence systems.

Can you tell me what justification there is for the "increasingly" here?

						Matt Ginsberg
From: tolba@friant.loria.fr (Hany Tolba)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Ref. wanted
Keywords: Fault daignosis, constraints
Date: 28 Dec 92 07:35:03 GMT
Organization: Crin-Inria-Lorraine

Hello,
I'm looking for the refrence of Jet Propulsion Lab. PEER project. More
precisely I'm looking for references for the fault daignosis tool
FAITH.
In fact, any information about fault daignosis systems using
constraintes are welcomed. I'd like very much to get in contact
with any current fault dagnosis project.

Thank you in advance.

Yours,
Hany Tolba


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From: winzar@newsman (Hume Winzar)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.math.stat
Subject: Re: Learning from subjective data
Date: 24 Dec 1992 18:34:40 GMT
Organization: Commerce, Murdoch University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.115.160.7

In article <Bzo3Fr.7Kw@cs.uiuc.edu> bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao) writes:
>almond@statsci.com (Russell G. Almond) writes:
>>R. Bharat Rao (bharat@cs.uiuc.edu) writes:

>>> I was wondering if anyone knew of any work that has been done on
>>> learning from subjective data.  For instance, you may have a data set
>>> of events with a number of independent attribute (x1...xn) and a
>>> single dependent attribute y.  However, y is a subjective rating.

In addition to the Psych dept. suggested by R.G. Almond, you might also 
check out the work done by Transport Economists, and transport engineers.  

Specifically models of Stated Preference of different transport mode 
alternatives.  The problem domain is to work out the relative influences on 
alternative evaluations for transport.  With this type of data they can make 
an informed guess about, say, the effects on road traffic congestion of 
installing a new railway station.

The approach goes something like this:  Attribute combinations can be 
formulated with respect to Mode (car, bus, train, etc) Speed, Convenience, 
Cost, etc.  Maybe thousands of combinations are possible which usually are 
reduced to a smaller number in an orthogonal array using fractional 
factorial design technique.  Survey respondents are asked to evaluate a 
subset of this array and make a rating or ranking on each, or sometimes just 
choose their first preference.  The data are combined and, depending on 
their type, run through a general linear package, or a Multinomial Logit 
(MNL) package, to derive parameter estimates for each attribute and 
attribute level.

An obvious, and critical, assumption here is that each respondent is making 
evaluations that are random variations around a single shared evaluative 
function.  If you do not accept this assumption, then you have to create 
separate models for each person, and gather all data from each person.  (I 
do that with marketing and psychoogical research but with very simplified 
models.)

Check out the work of Jordan Louviere, now at Salt Lake City.  Or David 
Hencher at the Transport Research Institute at the Graduate School of 
Business, University of Sydney, Australia.  (There are also transport 
research institutes in LA and London but I don't know any names, sorry.)

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