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From: cki14@cs.ruu.nl (CKI-EXP 14)
Subject: Call for Info on study programs
Summary: Call for info on study programs
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:38:25 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
Keywords: study,AI,KBS,info


L.S.,


 


 Could anybody help me with information concerning education related to
 Artificial Intelligence or Knowledge Based Systems on foreign (so not in
 Holland) Universities?


 The reason behind this request is the following. I am now studying Cognitive
 Artificial Intelligence at the State University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
 This is a four year course in which four different Departments join. viz. The
 Department of Philosophy, the Department of Computer Science, the Linguistics
 Department and the department of Psychology. I'm finishing my third year now
 and I thought it nice to do a part of my study, or even finish my study
 abroad. My problem now is that I know very little of sort-like or AI-related
 studies and Research on Other Universities. My primary interests are
 Knowledge Based Systems, and Artificial Neural Networks, but I'm still open
 to any other AI-related topic. 

 If you can think you can help me to find a suited curriculum please send mail
 to:


 jonk@Groucho.phil.ruu.nl
  or
 cki14@praxis.cs.ruu.nl


 I was thinking of a stay of about 1 year.

 If you think you need more information concerning my study, or if you want to
 have some more references, you can leave your adress, and I will be pleased
 to send you the information needed.




 Thank you for reading this,




 B.F. Jonk
 Daendelsstraat 29bis
 3531 GB Utrecht
 The Netherlands.
From: guyyalif@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Guy Udassin Yalif)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Object Pattern Matching in CLIPS
Date: 5 Jan 93 02:55:38 GMT
Distribution: comp.ai, comp.ai.edu, comp.ai.shells
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@nimaster

I am writing an expert system in CLIPS. It will contain large amounts of
data stored in objects. It is important that rules be able to pattern
match these objects in order to access the information stored in them.
CLIPS 5.1 does not offer object pattern matching on the LHS. Has anyone
figured out a way around this? Does anyone know when the version of
CLIPS that will include object pattern matching is due to come out?
Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Guy Yalif
guyyalif@phoenix.princeton.edu
From: rbarrell@peg.pegasus.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Date: 05 Jan 93 09:10 EST
Subject: Re: Looking for PC based expert sys
Nf-ID: #R:1992Dec31.052617.13284@princeton:-901957699:peg:130200005:000:931
Nf-From: peg.UUCP!rbarrell    Jan  5 09:10:00 1993


There are a few quite good expert system shells for MSDOS 
computers (PClones) - some are very cheap and others not so 
cheap.
 
Not so cheap - but also not nasty:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
VP expert - quite powerful.  Site licences available for 
educational institutions.  Nice teaching tool for teaching 
about expert systems, backward chaining and etc.  VP expert 
will read a relational table and write its own decision tree - 
or you can devise production rules yourself with its built in 
editor.  Snail Mail address:
 
Paperback Software
2830 Nineth Street
Berkely California 94710
 
cheap - shareware:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ESIE - Expert System Inference Engine
This has been around for several years.  It is much more 
limited than VP Expert, however, it is possible to build 
surprisingly useful expert systems with it.  Snail mail 
address:
 
Lightwave
PO box 16858
Tampa Florida 33617
 
Hope this is useful.
Ross
From: rice@sumex-aim.Stanford.EDU (James Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: AI and forecasting
Followup-To: comp.ai
Date: 7 Jan 93 09:27:28
Organization: Knowledge Systems Lab, Stanford University
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In-reply-to: imfacks@prism.gatech.EDU's message of 7 Jan 93 16:53:50 GMT

In article <79388@hydra.gatech.EDU> imfacks@prism.gatech.EDU (K.K. Srinivasan) writes:


   Hi:
   I am interested in the use of AI techniques (Knowledge Based Systems, 
   Machine Learning and Neural Nets) for the purposes of forecasting. Can 
   some one give me pointers / references in the above area? 
   Thanks.
   KK


Being partisan, I would highly recommend the book:

  "Genetic Programming:  On the programming of computers by means of
   natural selection"
   By John R. Koza.  MIT Press 1992 (just out)
   This has just been announced as the alternate selection of the
   Library of Science book club thingy, so if you get books from
   them it would be a cheap(er) way to pick up a copy.

There's a movie that goes with the book:

  "Genetic Programming - the Movie"
  By John R. Koza and yours truly also MIT press 1992.


Not knowing what sort of forcasting you mean (I'd guess financial time
series, but you might mean weather), I'd also suggest trying to find
out what Pelkey (sp?) and Farmer are up to, but I hear that they are
actually making money and are unlikely to tell anyone how they do it.
However you might get some pointers from the publications that come
out of the Santafe Institute.  Addison Wesley publishes a whole series
of books/monographs from them.

Last year's IJCNN proceedings are on a CD ROM, so you might be able
to search through them easily for any useful references.  The CD is
only readable on PCs, though :-(.

My guess is that anyone who publishes anything about time-series
prediction has a good chance of being a loser.  The winners keep
quiet.




Rice.
From: christen@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Carl Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Lewis Carroll
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:55:34 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]


B M Wightman (Benedict.M.Wightman@cm.cf.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <16B4C9EBF.KGODDEN@cmsa.gmr.com> KGODDEN@cmsa.gmr.com writes:
: >I just found the following reference in a library search, anyone know what it
: >is the LC did for AI? (!)
: >
: >TI:  CARROLL,LEWIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
: >AU:  OKASHAH, L. A.
: >OS:  UNIV CENT FLORIDA,DEPT IND ENGN/ORLANDO//FL/3281
: >JL:  COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
: >IS:  VOL. 23, NO. 1-4, PP. 377-380         NOV 1992

: Provided a lot of populist authors writing cunningly disguised Boring Academic
: Books with quotes for chapter headings. They (Hofstatder (sp?) et al) seem to
: think this makes them instantly a)witty and b)right.

And gave a chance for a pompous twit grad student like yourself to
feel (a) superior and (b) intellectual.

----
Carl Christensen
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: jorn@chinet.chi.il.us (Jorn Barger)
Subject: Inside Schank's ILS ( --> r.a.i-f)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:33:59 GMT

For the last three years I've been enjoying a 'programmer's
perspective' on the Schankian school of AI, and having now been
(rather rudely) cut free, I'll be posting a series of meditations
on what I learned there (Northwestern's Institute for the Learning
Sciences).  Since Schankian AI is not everyone's cup of tea, and
since my own perspective is centered on the application of
Schank's ideas to interactive fiction, I think I'll be happier
posting to rec.arts.int-fiction than here. (If anyone has a problem
with that, write me.)  Regarding my termination, I'll just say
it was the age-old conflict of the artist and the *connoisseur*...

;^)

Jorn Barger  jorn@chinet.chi.il.us (was: barger@ils.nwu.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.neural-nets,sci.cognitive,comp.theory.cell-automata,bionet.neuroscience,bionet.molbio.evolution,bionet.software
From: andrick@sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de (Ulf Andrick [Biologie])
Subject: Re: Biologically Plausible Dynamic Artificial Neural Networks
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:01:08 GMT

doshay@ursa.arc.nasa.gov (David Doshay) writes:
: Because M.D. Ross was the first reference in the posting, and I work in her
: lab at NASA Ames, I feel some need to post also. Dr. Ross is a neuroanatomist
: and we study nerves in the vestibular macula at the ultrastructural level. 
: 
: First, I have never heard her refer to a DANN in the manner the post does, and in
: the post she is referenced right after this acronym.
: 
: Second, with respect to Ulf's posting, we do use both artificial neural net
: models as well as electrophysiological models here in the Biocomputation 
: Center. There are some questions that are best answered with one of those models
: because they are too hard to answer with the other type. We have far more time
: in the 'real' models than the artificial, but some networking questions are
: still best posed in the context of an artificial neural net just because of
: the huge computational requirements for networks of more realistic nerves. We
: are, however, scaling up our 'real' models to ask such questions. In those cases
: we plan to burn several hundred hours of CRAY YMP time. Thank goodness (and the
: US taxpayers) that NASA has the supercomputers.

I just wanted to counter the view that Artificial Neural
Networks (ANN) are suitable to explain everything in the brain.
Further more, the posting I answered to referred to small
neural systems in simple organisms, and here, I don't see a
field for the application of ANN. I think of the stomatogastric
ganglion of the crab or the flight generator of the locust
when talking about small neural systems. 

I'm aware that some work has been done with ANNs to simulate
large networks as in the human cortex. 

But I didn't mind to present a view which was perhaps a little 
one-sided, because I wanted to see the reactions, esp. of AI people. 
But somehow, there was not much response, at least I saw
no other replies in bionet.neuroscience.

: 
: These statements are mine, and not those of the Biocomputation Center
: 
: David		doshay@soma.arc.nasa.gov
: 
: The thought police insist I tell you:
: my thoughts, not NASA's

--
Ulf R. Andrick                                andrick@rhrk.uni-kl.de
FB Biologie - Tierphysiologie
Universitaet                             Was du nicht selber weiszt, 
D-W 6750 Kaiserslautern       das muszt du dir erklaeren (Tegtmeier)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: kaskubar@mayo.edu (Bruce Kaskubar)
Subject: Scheduling Problems
Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 19:52:35 GMT

Problem shape...

I'm a medical center.  I have an (out)patient in a clinic that  
needs medical services (like a chest X-ray, a blood draw for  
laboratory tests, a consultation with a physician, and an EKG).  I  
have locations where specified services can be performed.  I have  
staff people certified to provide specified services.  I can  
perform a certain volume of each service per unit time.  Each  
service may interact with other services in relationships such as  
prerequisite, postrequisite, result conflict (i.e., service A's  
performance invalidates service B's result if A is performed during  
specified time period relative to B).  For each patient's set of  
ordered services, I want a computer to build, say, an itinerary  
including location, date, time, and service provider.

Solution?

The solution appears amenable to knowledge-based systems, no?  If  
so, where can I find a body of work that describes algorithms for  
solution to such a problem?

Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: sheppard@escher.cs.jhu.edu (John Sheppard)
Subject: Re: FESA, Fully Employed Students Association
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University CS Department
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:51:31 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.123723.16769@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> 
mcclanah@dlgeo.cr.usgs.gov writes:
>But, why is it that no one
>has found a way to set up a non-traditional approach to a PhD for
>fully employeed people.  I mean, I cannot simply quit my job and
>wander off to some university for 4 or 5 years and work on a degree
>(and before I get flamed - I realize that a lot of people have
>done exactly that and they have sacrificed a great deal in order
>to get their degree.  Why can't we have both???).
>
>Anyway, I will quite rambling.  Any body have any thoughts or other
>ideas?
>
>Pat McClanahan
>mcclanah@dlgeo.cr.usgs.gov


I was originally going to limit my comments to a direct response to 
Wallace, but I think I will post in response to this one.  I received
my Master's through a part time evening program at Johns Hopkins with
a lot of financial and administrative support for my company.  JHU's
program also offers courses at 4:30 and 7:10.  But that's not really
what I want to say.

I am currently a fully employed person working for the same company
that supported my Master's AND I am working on my Ph.D. at Hopkins.
I have been full time at Hopkins in the day program for the past
two years and am progressing well.  The point is that I have managed
to arrange a deal with my employer who values advanced degrees to
providing funding and time to do this with no loss of wages.  It is
possible to work these deals.  You only need to explore your alternatives
and be a little creative.

John Sheppard
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: altenbur@plains (Karl Altenburg)
Subject: Re: Cellular automata
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:38:56 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4


Try:  comp.theory.cell-automata

--
Karl R Altenburg				altenbur@plains.NoDak.edu
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND  58105

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.  SIR THOMAS BROWNE
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.neural-nets,sci.cognitive
From: rsun@athos.cs.ua.edu (Ron Sun)
Subject: SP and NN
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 21:38:05 GMT



I am sure this request has been posted many times before;
but I do have to ask the question again:

  Could you send me references on integrating symbolic processing
  and neural networks (connectionist models), especially in terms
  of __architectural__ issues, from a cognitive or other viewpoint?

I am co-editing a book on this topic and I plan to include an extensive
bib on the topic. I already have a sizable list, but I need more,
especially more recent references. Anyone interested in seeing what I have
so far can e-mail me, and I will be glad to provide the  list.
I will post a summary in the end.

I would like authors to send me (a possibly annotated) list
of their publications on this topic.
Also, anyone who has already compiled such a bib please let me know
and I would like to incorporate theirs. Due credits will be given.


Here is my address. E-mail response (rsun@cs.ua.edu)
is strongly preferred.

================================================================
Ron Sun,  Ph.D  
Assistant Professor 
Department of Computer Science            phone: (205) 348-6363
The University of Alabama                 fax:   (205) 348-8573
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487                      rsun@athos.cs.ua.edu
================================================================

Thanks for your cooperation.


Newsgroups: comp.ai.genetic
From: m16532@mwunix (Steven Bayer)
Subject: Re: GA simulator wanted. (In english)
Organization: MITRE Corporation, Houston, TX
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:56:46 GMT

In article <826@basashi.aisoft.co.jp> avigdor@basashi.aisoft.co.jp (Pollak Avigdor) writes:
>Hi !
>I  am looking for available ( or cheep ) GA simulator 
>that works under X-WINDOWS .
>Any information about this kind of product would
>be greatly appreciated.
>
>	Thanks 

I wrote a GA package called Splicer for NASA.  It runs under X on Suns
(and is easily ported to other machines; I had it running on an RS/6000
in under an hour) as well on on the Mac.  If you have government 
affiliation, you can obtain a copy of Splicer for free from the Software 
Technology Branch Help Desk at the Johnson Space Center.  Their number
is (713) 280-2233; e-mail is stbprod@fdr.jsc.nasa.gov.  Otherwise, you 
can also get Splicer for a small fee from COSMIC at (404) 542-3265.

Good luck.
                     __o                                          
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Newsgroups: comp.ai.genetic
From: mccoy@ils.nwu.edu (Jim Mccoy)
Subject: Re: Simple problems to solve genetically
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 05:42:02 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.192644.24693@fcom.cc.utah.edu> freier@mail.physics.utah.edu (rodney james freier) writes:
>In article <LAINS.93Jan8190731@world.std.com>, lains@world.std.com (Layne L Ainsworth) writes:
>|> 
>|> On the BlackJack problem:
>|> 
>|> aIt might be knd of interesting to give as input the history of all
>|> cards turned up in the game (current shoe). Emergent card counting!
>
>   Yes, that should give a better playing strategy, but at a huge cost.
>To make a hit/stay decision, you need to know the value of your hand and
>some reasonable number of the cards that have appeared up to this point.  
>This should always include the dealer's upcard and your two cards.

It might be possible to allow some card counting without the huge costs you
assume.  For starters, one can make significant modification of the house
percentage just by counting aces, face cards, and 10s.  Additionally, one
advantage that blackjack has over card games such as poker is that the card
suit has no value.  A jack of diamonds is equivalent in all cases to a jack
of spades.  This means that you only need to keep track of 13 categories
with a value from 0-4, hence only 39 bits and not the 52 you mentioned.
You could even decrease this number by storing all cards with a value of 10
as a single number (now we are down to 32 bits, and only 8 bits to count
aces and cards with a value of 10.)
>
>    Let me compare that with the string size for the original problem.
>
>     Item             Number of possibilities
>     Hand's value        9
>     dealers upcard      52
>     Is hand splitable?  2
>      
>    This gives only 9*2*52 = 936 bits per string, or 117 bytes.  That would

Or we could try this:

cards in hand:	10 bits, 5 per card (values 0-16, suit is irrellevant)
dealers upcard: 5 bits

By ignoring suit you will be able to cut out a major amount of noise from
the strings you proposed.  We could even add the 32 bits necessary to count
a full deck as mentioned previously and still be way under the 936 bits you
suggest.  Then again, I could be missing something very obvious here...it
has been a long day... :)

jim




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From: rgasch@nl.oracle.com (Robert Gasch)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.genetic
Subject: Re: Use of Genetic Algorithms to evolve robot behavior?
Date: 8 Jan 93 12:58:46 GMT
Organization: Oracle Europe
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Walter Alden Tackett (tackett@ipld01.hac.com) wrote:
: In article <C0ICnz.o6@world.std.com> lains@world.std.com (Layne L Ainsworth) writes:
: >Has anyone tried to do this: 
: >
: >"Herds" of cheap (really cheap), reprogrammable robots, each loaded
: >with one set of the test "chromosome" population of a Genetic
: >Algorithm system. They could be evaluated to optimize indivdual
: >performance, or "hive" well-being.  Each "generation" would be the
: >same robots, with a new generation of "chromosomes" on board.

About 2 years ago I wrote a program on the Mac (Ok, Ok ... I've moved
on to UNIX :-)) which defined a (somewhat limited) syntax for 
robots which could be programmed to move around a landscape and
pick up energy, and perform a few simple actions based on their 
evaluation of the environment. 
After a while of running you would get stable populations which, if they
were too successful, would then starve. I stopped running this simualtion
after a while because I was fed up with tinkering with the Mac's 
memory model which required all sort of tricks to expand the simualtion
into what I felt would have been better settings.

I have recently thought about porting this to UNIX XWindows but if I 
ever get around to it, it will take quite some time to adapt all the
display routines.

----> Robert


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Newsgroups: comp.ai.genetic
From: freier@mail.physics.utah.edu (rodney james freier)
Subject: Simple problems to solve genetically
Organization: University of Utah - Physics Department
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 20:27:02 GMT

  I'm looking for a few simple games/problems that can be played/solved
genetically.  I'm just trying to practice with the concept.  The best
simple project I've been able to come up with so far is generating a
Blackjack strategy genetically.  A hit or a stay decision will be based
on two things:  the dealers up card and the current total of the player's
hand.  
  According to Scarne ( _Scarne on Cards_ ), there are simple strategies
using only this info that can significantly reduce the bank's 5.3% or so
advantage.  He gives his recommended strategies, and I thought it would
be a good exercise to verify them with genetic programming.

  Any others?
From: rice@sumex-aim.Stanford.EDU (James Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.genetic
Subject: Re: LISP
Date: 12 Jan 93 12:47:35
Organization: Knowledge Systems Lab, Stanford University
	<1993Jan12.182845.8772@bnr.ca>
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In-reply-to: grey@bnr.ca's message of Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:28:45 GMT

Kyoto Common Lisp is also free.  I know that it works on
unix boxes, but I doubt that it does on PCoids.  I seem to
recall that there's a cheapware version of this that's supposed
to be a little less flakey called Ibuki CL, if I remember right.

You get (at most) what you pay for.

If you're looking for a free interpreter and spare CPU cycles
you might consider hacking in PostScript and downloading
your jobs onto idle printers.



Rice - no substitute for a good compiler.