From: arms@cs.UAlberta.CA (Bill Armstrong)
Subject: Re: ALNs and Canadian companiezzzZZZZZ
Keywords: adaptive logic, connectionism, data analysis, pattern recognition
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 03:25:56 GMT

kean@cs.ubc.ca (Alex Kean) writes:

>In article <arms.711832925@spedden> arms@cs.UAlberta.CA (Bill Armstrong) writes:
>>>Although quite a few Canadian university researchers are ftp-ing the
>>>atree 2.6 code, it is disappointing that few Canadian companies are in
>>>the lists we have kept of sites taking the code on Internet.  On the
>>>other hand, we are getting plenty of email from foreign companies that
>>>are interested in ALNs.  Canada now has, in ALNs, the best artificial
>>>neural network technology in the world, but the benefits will go to
>>>companies that use it, not to those who ignore it.

Then after several days of nothing:

>>
>>OK, I guess I'm the last one in this group.  Better turn out the lights.
>>Click!

And suddenly, out of the darkness:

>Nope, I am still here. Please leave the lights on.

Sorry! Click! The group looked empty.

 Glad to hear such
>great product from Canada. Maybe you like to start a discussion about
>ALN as many people, I presume, including myself are interested but do
>not have enough knowledge about it.

Hi Alex,

Glad to oblige.  Since you are at UBC, you have there one of the
persons who has contributed very significantly to the atree software:
Andrew Dwelly.  He's andy@bcu.ubc.ca.  Maybe you could get together
with him sometime.

Here are the usual things I send out to people wanting the software or
publications.  If you have any projects for which you think ALNs
might be useful, e.g. anything where you would possibly consider
a backprop-trained neural net, I would be glad to try to help you
and any other reader to get going with ALNs; or discuss possible
advantages of one net over the other.

Best wishes, and thanks for responding.

Bill

You can get C and C++ sources for the atree software as follows:
Here is a typical session with ftp, aimed at retrieving the adaptive
logic network (ALN) software. Unix prompts are "%", ftp prompts are "ftp>" and
editorial comments are in "[]".
% ftp      [start ftp]
ftp> open menaik.cs.ualberta.ca       [or "open 129.128.4.241"]
Name (menaik.cs.ualberta.ca:arms): anonymous
Password: [type your login id here, if you like]
ftp> cd pub
ftp> type binary [ we are dealing with a compressed file]
ftp> get atree2.tar.Z
ftp> quit
% uncompress atree2.tar.Z
% tar -xvf atree2.tar [and there you have it, and similarly for
atree2.ps.Z (a compressed PostScript document),
alnlpst-1991.Z (the alnl mailing list archive for 1991)] and
atre26.exe (the atree release 2.6 code for use with Windows 3.0 or 3.1
on the IBM-PC and compatibles).  Release 2.5 is now obsolete.

NB: If you want to economize on transmission time, you can omit the source
code by getting a26exe.exe instead of atre26.exe.



	Recommended Publications on Adaptive Logic Networks
	Based on Heuristic Responsibility


W. Armstrong, Adaptive Boolean Logic Element, U. S. Patent 3934231,
Feb. 28, 1974 (multiple filings in various countries),
assigned to Dendronic Decisions Limited.

G. v. Bochmann, W. Armstrong, Properties of Boolean Functions
with a Tree Decomposition, BIT 13, 1974. pp. 1-13.

W. Armstrong, Gilles Godbout: Use of Boolean Tree Functions to Perform
High-Speed Pattern Classification and Related Tasks, Dept. d'IRO,
Universite de Montreal, Doc. de Travail #53, 1974. (unpublished,
except in summary form as follows:)

W. Armstrong and G. Godbout, "Properties of Binary Trees
of Flexible Elements Useful in Pattern Recognition", IEEE 1975
International Conf. on Cybernetics and Society, San Francisco, 1975,
IEEE Cat. No. 75 CHO 997-7 SMC, pp. 447-449.

W. Armstrong and J. Gecsei, "Architecture of a Tree-based
Image Processor", 12th Asilomar Conf. on Circuits, Systems
and Computers, Pacific Grove, Calif., 1978, pp. 345-349.

W. Armstrong and J. Gecsei, "Adaptation Algorithms for
Binary Tree Networks", IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and
Cybernetics, 9, 1979, pp. 276-285.

W. Armstrong, J.-D. Liang, D. Lin, S. Reynolds, Experiments Using
Parsimonious Adaptive Logic, Tech. Rept. TR 90-30, Department of
Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,
T6G 2H1.  This is now available in a revised form via anonymous FTP
from menaik.cs.ualberta.ca [129.128.4.241] in pub/atree2.ps.Z (the
title of the revised document is "Some Results concerning Adaptive
Logic Networks").

W. Armstrong, A. Dwelly, J.-D. Liang, D. Lin, S. Reynolds, Learning
and Generalization in Adaptive Logic Networks, in Artificial Neural
Networks, Proceedings of the 1991 International Conference on
Artificial Neural Networks ( ICANN'91), Espoo,
Finland, June 24-28, 1991, T. Kohonen, K.Makisara, O. Simula, J. Kangas eds.
Elsevier Science Publishing Co. Inc. N. Y. 1991, vol. 2, pp. 1173-1176.

Allen G. Supynuk, William W. Armstrong, Adaptive Logic Networks and
Robot Control, Proc. Vision Interface Conference '92, also called
AI/VI/GI '92, Vancouver B. C., May 11-15, 1992, pp. 181 - 186.

R. B. Stein, A. Kostov, M. Belanger, W. W. Armstrong and D. B.
Popovic, Methods to Control Functional Electrical Stimulation in
Walking, First International FES Symposium, Sendai, Japan, July 23 -
25, 1992 (Invited paper, to appear).

In case you have difficulty in obtaining the above documents or the
atree release 2.0 software for Unix or release 2.5 for IBM-PC and
compatibles under Windows, the software and all of the above documents
prior to 1991 can be obtained from the University of Alberta for a
media fee to cover the costs of copying and mailing of $150
(Canadian), made payable to the University of Alberta.  Two 3 1/2"
diskettes are normally included but an attempt will be made to satisfy
needs for other media, e.g. tapes.  Orders can be sent c/o Professor
W. W.  Armstrong, Department of Computing Science, University of
Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2H1.
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University of Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H1
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