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From: haasdijk@fwi.uva.nl (Evert Haasdijk)
Subject: Calling professor Wright
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:50:48 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to find thye address and fax or phone number of professor
Wright from Montana (some U. overthere, don't know its exact name).
He works with Genetic Algorithms and the like.
I've been trying to email him at wright@sula.cs.mt.edu, but can't get
through. If something's wrong with the email address, please tell me.

Any help greatly appreciated, 
Evert
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From: almond@statsci.com (Russell G. Almond)
Subject: Re: Lewis Carroll
Organization: Statistical Sciences, Inc., Seattle, WA USA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:16:04 GMT


> 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

> -Kurt

Lewis Carroll has done a lot of work in symbolic logic.  His methods
are not particularly interesting, but his diagrams for explaining
logic might make interesting user interface paradigms.  His books also
contain long lists of interesting syllogism which make fun examples.


			Russell Almond			   
Statistical Sciences, Inc.		U. Washington
1700 Westlake Ave., N Suite 500		Statistics, GN-22
Seattle, WA  98109			Seattle, WA  98195
(206) 283-8802				
almond@statsci.com			almond@stat.washington.edu

	...From the brow of Russell Almond
	Gone was every trace of reason,
	As the fog from off the water,
	As pollution from the freeway.

	--From the "Song of Russell Almond" part of the Tree of
		Cliques cycle.

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From: meng@mercury.cs.uregina.ca (Meng Wang)
Subject: neural nets
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:02:09 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, SK, Canada
From: kostj@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jason E. Kost)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: AI and forecasting
Keywords: Pointers and References -- Request
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:21:40 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: guzzler.ecst.csuchico.edu

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
>
>(PS) I would post a summary of responses, if there is any interest in    
>this topic.
>
>-- 
>Krishnakumar (KK) Srinivasan, School of Management. 
>Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332-0520
>uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!imfacks
>Internet: imfacks@prism.gatech.edu

What is it that you want to forecast?  Stock prices?  The weather?

--Jason

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From: doshay@ursa.arc.nasa.gov (David Doshay)
Subject: Re: Biologically Plausible Dynamic Artificial Neural Networks
Organization: NASA-Ames Biocomputation Center
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:12:56 GMT

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.

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
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From: ndiaye@sol.cs.uni-sb.de (Alassane Ndiaye)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: E-MAIL ADRESS OF MARTIN KAY
Date: 5 Jan 93 07:55:05 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Saarbruecken -- Germany

I'm looking for the e-mail adress of Martin kay. 
Thank you for any hints.
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From: afzal@divsun.unige.ch (Afzal Ballim)
Subject: ftp sites wanted (was Re:Offprints of dissertation)
Keywords: ftp, belief, dissertation
Reply-To: afzal@divsun.unige.ch
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 09:41:05 GMT

Hi,
	following my offer of electronic copies of my dissertation,
I have been inundated with requests. My postmaster is probably not
going to be very happy if I congest email with gigabytes of material,
so I am searching for ftp sites where I can leave copies of the
dissertation. I will also put copies of my program ViewGen, which
figures in one chapter of the dissertation and is central to my
book with Yorick Wilks, "Artificial Believers." In all, this will
require about 5Mb of space. I am looking for sites in the US, Japan,
Australia, Africa, and Europe (although for Europe I already have
an offer of a site in Stuttgart, although have not yet been able
to connect to it).


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From: jason@dcs.umd.edu (Jason Steinhorn)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: FAQ
Date: 4 Jan 93 15:49:09 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park


Could someone please send me the FAQ list (if there is one) for this 
newsgroup?  Thanks.

Jason Steinhorn
University of Maryland:  Dept. of Communication Services

jason@dcs.umd.edu
From: chandy@marais.inria.fr (Chandra SHEKHAR)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: INFO NEEDED: AI applications to signal processing
Date: 4 Jan 93 10:31:26 GMT
Organization: INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis (Fr)


I am working on expert systems for signal processing and
control applications. I would like to get in touch with
others with similar research interests. I would greatly
appreciate references to existing work in this area.

Thanks.

Chandy
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From: hn314sc@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Schuering)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.edu,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.ai.shells
Subject: Looking for ELIZA/DOCTOR source
Date: 6 Jan 1993 15:15:38 +0100
Organization: Universitaet Duisburg GH
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: unidui.uni-duisburg.de
Keywords: eliza, doctor

                               Hi !
I am looking for the source of ELIZA and DOCTOR (--> J.Weizenbaum). I have
a C-version, but i'd prefer PASCAL; anyone out there having a PASCAL source 
or translator C --> PASCAL ? Thanks !

                                              Thomas Schuering
From: chenli@mercury.cs.uregina.ca (Lin Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: planning
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:57:03 GMT
Organization: University of Regina

please tell me who is doing reseach about using Petri net to planning problem,
such as planning with block world problem.
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.compilers
From: dyer@airplane.sharebase.com (Scot Dyer)
Subject: Re: Different Strokes for Different Folks (Was: Assessing a language)
Reply-To: dyer@airplane.sharebase.com (Scot Dyer)
Organization: NCR/ShareBase Corporation
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:06:35 GMT
Keywords: design

eifrig@beanworld.cs.jhu.edu (Jonathan Eifrig) wrote
>	For each style there is (or should be!) an appropriate
>language.  Prolog makes search-based programs easy, but nobody
>would want to write a numerical analysis package in it.  Functional
>languages like pure ML are great for manipulating quasi-static data
>structures, but I would hate to write a network-flow algorithm in it.
>
>	Surprisingly, there hasn't been much work in developing
>heterogenous programming environments, to support a sort of "mix and
>match" approach to programming.  Such tools would go a long way to
>alleviating the language holy wars, I think.

Some new AI* languages (such as POP-11 and Trilogy) take this approach.
Both supply the programmer with the tools of the Functional,
Relational/Logical and Imperative programming paradigms.  To the best of
my knowledge an object-oriented mix-and-match does not yet exist.

Part of me finds this approach pleasing, but another finds it awkward.  It
would be nice to be able to do prolog-y things in a prolog-y way, ml-y
things in an ml-y way, lisp-y things in a lisp-y way... etc.  Where does
one stop?  A language which allowed these new language forms to be defined
on top of it would be most aesthetically pleasing, but might not allow for
sufficient optimization on the part of the compiler...

	-- Scot

P.S. I don't think trilogy is commercially (or otherwise) availible yet...

==============================================================================

* Don't ask me what an AI language is, or what AI is.  AI is probably best
defined as that which cannot currently be done.  IMHO, Every AI success
becomes another conventional programming trick.  (Dynamic Memory, AI,
Heuristics, etc.)  By doing it, we "explain away" the intelligence.  I
call these "AI Languages" only since I think it's mostly "AI people" (a
more ambiguous term) who use them or are interested in them.
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From: huff@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (Brian C. Huff)
Subject: Cellular automata
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:40:32 GMT


	I'm looking for any information available on the net about CA's.
If anyone knows of an archive somewhere, please send me a message.

Thanks :)

Brian
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells
From: fred@pamphlet.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Fred Eichelman)
Subject: tools on Pyramid
Organization: Bellcore
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 21:15:40 GMT

Anyone know of any commercial rule-based & object-based tools on Pyraimid machines?

fred
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                                 Bell Communications Research

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From: nemleem@cs.vu.nl (Leemans NEM)
Subject: looking for Knowledge Bases
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:03:19 GMT

Hi,

I am almost finished writing a Prolog program that checks
rule based expert system modules for consistency.

I am looking for test modules.
I would appreciate any knowledge base of fifty or more
IF .. THEN ... rules, so I can test my program thoroughly.
I can only use knowledge bases of which the rules can have
only one conclusion.

Any response can be send to nemleem@cs.vu.nl

Thanks,
Paul.
From: finin@cs.umbc.edu (Timothy Finin)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells
Subject: CAIA-93 Advance Program & Registration Information
Date: 12 Jan 1993 09:33:44 -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 for additional info

The 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 Club & Beach
Club Resort Hotel in Orlando, Florida, USA.

To get the advance program and registration information by email, send a
message to CAIA@CS.UMBC.EDU.  For additional 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:M.KABZA@COMPMAIL.COM.
From: yucao001@draconis.spd.louisville.edu (Yu Cao)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells
Subject: CLIPS 4.2 source needed
Keywords: CLIPS
Date: 9 Jan 93 02:45:02 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

Hi, netters

Anyone has any idea where to find the source code for CLIPS 4.2?
Thanks.

- Yu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells
From: kaskubar@mayo.edu (Bruce Kaskubar)
Subject: Scheduling algorithms
Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 15:53:33 GMT

Can anybody lead me to a body of literature regarding scheduling  
algorithms?

Thanks

Bruce Kaskubar, kaskubar@mayo.edu
From: khore@solb1.essex.ac.uk (Khor E W)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells
Subject: Re: WANTED: RULE SET OF SMALL EXPERT SYSTEM
Date: 5 Jan 93 10:12:52 GMT
Reply-To: khore@essex.ac.uk (Khor E W)
Organization: University of Essex, Colchester, UK

Hi,

 Sorry to pop-up. The book you've mentioned is meant more specifically
for an ES shell call CLIPS written by NASA JSC. For a more general
introduction to production system, a book like 'An Introduction to
Expert System' by Peter Jackson will be most rewarding.

--
EW Khor, Dept of Comp Sci., Essex University, UK.
email: khore@uk.ac.essex (Internet)
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From: mcclanah@dlgeo.cr.usgs.gov
Subject: Re:FESA, Fully Employed Students Association
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:37:23 GMT
X-Posted-From: dlgeo.cr.usgs.gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

As a follow up to my previous posting:

I am interested in pursuing a PhD in AI but live in a rather out of
the way locale, which makes access to a decent (actually to any)
PhD program in AI quite difficult.  I have looked at some of the
non-traditional offerings from places like NOVA University ($6000)/year)
and Mind Extension University (no PhD programs) etc but have not
found anything yet.  Have contacted some of the graduate student
coordinators at some univserites (oops) but have mostly recieved
"Sorry full-time on campus only" types of messages.  I realize that
pursuing a PhD is much different and more difficult than recieving
a Masters (I beleive one individual put it "Its more like an
apprenticeship than an education).  But, why is it that now 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 raealize 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
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From: Richard.Kooijman@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl (Richard Kooijman)
Subject: Re: Lewis Carroll
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:31:53 GMT

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

Does anybody have some printable version (LaTeX, Postscript) of this
article? I would like to get a copy in case you have it.



Richard.

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From: finin@cs.umbc.edu (Timothy Finin)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: CAIA-93 Advance Program & Registration Information
Date: 10 Jan 1993 15:07:32 -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 for additional info

The 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 Club & Beach
Club Resort Hotel in Orlando, Florida, USA.

To get the advance program and registration information by email, send a
message to CAIA@CS.UMBC.EDU.  For additional 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:M.KABZA@COMPMAIL.COM.
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From: moeller@iw.uni-hannover.de (Henning Moeller)
Subject: Q: feature maps
Reply-To: moeller@iw.uni-hannover.de
Organization: Institut fuer Werkstoffkunde, Uni Hannover
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:56:17 GMT


Hi,
We like to develop a control-system for a dynamic system based on feature maps (Kohonen).
Now we have two questions:
 1. Is it necessary to normalize the sensoric signals, if they are of a 
    different kind (position/orientation)?
 2. What`s about the correctness concerning the estimation of the Jacobi 
    matrix in both cases?

Thanks in advance,
                  Henning





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From: huff@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (Brian C. Huff)
Subject: RE: Where to find CA's
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:01:59 GMT


	Just want to thank everyone for their help in locating
a good CA ftp site.

Thanks! :)

Brian C. Huff
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From: nobody@ctr.columbia.edu
Subject: Re:FESA, Fully Employed Students Association
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:24:49 GMT
X-Posted-From: dlgeo.cr.usgs.gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

I recieved my Masters through on off campus program with Utah State.
All of their classes were in the evening, but some did start as early
as 4:30.  My employeer did not have any problems with me leaving
early one day a week, for a quarter to attend class.

I do sympathize with your plight though.  Now that we have the
motivation (and most professionals that return for a higher degree
are very motivated) and the money (or maybe the company pays for it)
it would be nice if it were a little easier.

Pat McClanahan
mcclanah@dlgeo.cr.usgs.gov
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.lang.prolog,sci.logic
From: bond@sce.carleton.ca (Greg Bond)
Subject: Decision procedure for Horn theories with inequality
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:31:37 GMT

I'm curious whether there exists a refutation complete decision
procedure for Horn clause theories with *inequality*, namely
"not-equals". For example, consider the definite clause program
defining the negation of path and arc relations for the following
directed graph:

	A-->B-->D

not_path(x,z) :- not_arc(x,z),not_arc(x,k(x,z)).
not_path(x,z) :- not_arc(x,z),not_path(k(x,z),z)).

not_arc(X,Y) :- (X != a),(X != b).
not_arc(X,Y) :- (X != a),(Y != d).
not_arc(X,Y) :- (Y != b),(X != b).
not_arc(X,Y) :- (Y != b),(Y != d).

This program is simply the Skolem normal form of the ONLY-IF sentences
of the predicate completion of a definite program defining the
(positive) path and arc relations.  The functor k/2 is a Skolem
function introduced through Skolemization. Note that not_path and
not_arc are predicate symbols here. Inequality is represented by !=
which can either be interpreted to be a predicate symbol or as the
logical negation of equality. The standard equality axioms can be
considered implicit as can the following (lexical) inequalities:

(a != b).
(a != d).
(b != d).

I would like to be able to confirm that a refutation exists for ground
goals like :- not_path(b,a). This can be done using the OTTER theorem
prover and linear paramodulation but it seems to me there must be a
specialized approach for dealing with Horn clause theories. 

Please reply via email and I will summarize for the net.
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Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University
Ottawa, ON, Canada K1S 5B6
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