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From: tonyr@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Tony Reis)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells
Subject: TILLShell question
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:35:04 GMT
Organization: HP Signal Analysis Division - Rohnert Park, CA

Does anyone have experience using TILShell from Togai InfraLogic, Inc?
What is the structure of the code it generates and is it easy to integrate into an existing system? 


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From: krb@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Kevin Barnes)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:43:32 GMT
Subject: Re: What shell to use
Organization: the HP Response Center, Atlanta
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells

There is company in Albuquerque that offers an expert system that as they say 
"runs under Dos, Unix, ms-windows, I have the dos version and am quite pleased
with it. It's a rule based ssytem and offers dbase interfaces, blackboarding
lotus read/ write and a lot of other neat features.



Contact
Exsys Inc.
1720 Lousiana Blvd
Suite 312
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110
505-256-8356

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From: bb760597@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells
Subject: Robust user interfacing with CLIPS v5.1...
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:50:07 GMT
Reply-To: bb760597@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu ()
Distribution: na
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

I am writing a decision-support program in CLIPS for the PC, and one of the
highest priorities that I must consider in design of the program is that of 
a strong user interface.

Because CLIPS places such a high priority in portability between all different
types of machines, the user interfacing capabilities of the base system are
crude at best, since only TTY-based functionality is provided.

To get around this problem, I may be forced to write a main program that 
takes care of the interface in C, which will call CLIPS as a set of 
imbedded functions.  While the Advanced Programming Manual of version 5.1 
documents how this can be done, I would like input from anyone who has done 
anything similar to what I have described.

Any information concerning any problems encountered, special techniques used,
or any other caveats involved with imbedding CLIPS or adding user interfacing
capabilities to CLIPS would be very helpful, and greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
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From: claird@NeoSoft.com (Cameron Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells,comp.programming,comp.software-eng
Subject: Commercial exception-handling as rule evaluation [LONG]
Date: 31 Jul 92 14:58:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: NeoSoft.1992Jul31.145835.27035
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900

I have a precise situation in mind, but the questions I have about it
are open-ended.

I program a lot of exception-handling into the commercial applications
for which I have responsibility.  Examples:

	a.  if a resource manager in the process of initializing
	    shared-memory communications detects what appears to
	    be an orphaned shared-memory segment, then it writes
	    an announcement of that observation to a log file;
	b.  if a user specifies a perfume recipe with a negative
	    quantity of verbena extract, then the application
	    prints a diagnostic to the screen, and halts;
	c.  if an operator requests the manifests for the con-
	    tents of a rail car that in fact is idle, a diagnostic
	    appears, along with a pop-up listing likely identifiers
	    for cars that *are* in transit.

This if-then formulation suggests that an expert system--perhaps just a
small one--should come into play somewhere.  My first question, then, is
I.  What do people think of engineering (some? all?) exception-handling
    as an expert system?

Advantages:  I just feel good about a structure which emphasizes the
uniformity of an approach.  I can derive all sorts of division-of-labor
advantages by partitioning exception-handling in this way, and a rule-
manipulation system seems quite natural.  In particular, a uniform
approach will streamline effective communication with the user; if he
or she comes to expect that faults will be reported in a more-or-less
uniform way, then he or she will understand the reports better, and
trust them more.

Disadvantages:  folklore has it that exception-handling is hard to
automate; for example, even fans of yacc(1) and lex(1) complain that
error-recovery is next-to-impossible.  That's not really the same
issue, but part of the yacc-lex history is the realization that users
deserve a variety of different approaches to reporting errors.  Another
disadvantage, of course, is that I'll need to make some changes if I
aim to engineer this better.  This leads to
II.  what's opinions do folks have on available are engines
    ns, with techniques andwhich can be linked in with C++  results
which are specific, but accessible to alert
high-school students.
	    
-- 

Cameron Laird
claird@Neosoft.com (claird%Neosoft.com@uunet.uu.net)	+1 713 267 7966
claird@litwin.com (claird%litwin.com@uunet.uu.net)  	+1 713 996 8546
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells
From: lmiller@aero.org (Lawrence H. Miller)
Subject: Quintus Flex
Summary: Anyone familiar with this?
Keywords: knowledge representation, expert systems, prolog, quintus
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:37:33 GMT

Anyone familiar with a Quintus Prolog product called "Quintus Flex"?
We are looking at this as an alternative to CLIPS for an expert
system.  We already have Quintus Prolog.

One apparent advantage over CLIPS is the KR scheme, as well as
the expert system engine.

Comments appreciated.

-- 
Larry Miller		The Aerospace Corporation
PO Box 92957		LA, CA 90009-2957
lmiller@aero.org	310-336-5597
(4 line .sig: keeps the .sig police happy)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells
From: hafner@ccs.northeastern.edu (Carole Hafner)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells
Subject: Re: What shell to use
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:09:23 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. @ NU

I have recently been through the process of choosing
an expert system shell on the PC, and I have found
Knowledge Pro to be a good choice.  It comes in both
DOS and Windows, includes run-time version, is easy
to learn and bug free.  Supports a combination of
conventional programming and backward chaining
(no forward chaining, although it is not difficult
to achieve the same effect using conventional programming). 
Also has DBase interface, an excellent hypertext capability 
(excellent because it is totally integrated with the program 
logic), and best of all a reasonable price for academics.

I should add the following caveat: my experience so
far is with the DOS version, I cannot vouch for the
Windows version, which is much newer.

Knowledge Pro is rather inelegant (the BASIC of
expert systems shells ??), but
it sure gets the job done!  I have no association with
Knowledge Garden, Inc., the company that sells it.
I don't have their address handy, but will respond
to personal e-mail if you want it.

Carole Hafner
College of Computer Science
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115
hafner@corwin.ccs.northeastern.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: sepp@kiwi.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Josef Schneeberger)
Subject: New german AI newsgroups
Cc: sepp
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:27:40 GMT
Organization: FG Intellektik, FB Informatik, TH Darmstadt (Germany)

Since one week now, there exists a new *unmoderated* German (speaking) AI
newsgroup -- a German counterpart to "comp.ai". The name of the newsgroup is
"de.sci.ki.discussion" (note the German name ;-) I also would like to point
everybody to the other newly created group for announcements (regarding AI)
with the name "de.sci.ki.announce".

It will be no problem to post English messages to these newsgroup
(announcements or questions etc.) because (nearly?) every scientist working on
AI in the German speaking countries is at least able to read English.

For completeness reasons, I include the charta of these AI newsgroups here:

de.sci.ki.discussion	Diskussionen zu allen Themen und aus allen
			Teilgebieten der Kuenstlichen Intelligenz (KI).
			(unmoderated)

de.sci.ki.announce	Ankuendigungen (Veranstaltungshinweise, Call for
			Papers, Tagungsankuendigungen) mit Bezug zur
			Kuenstlichen Intelligenz (KI).
			(unmoderated)

de.sci.ki.mod-ki	mod-ki (Elektronische Zeitung) zum Thema
			Kuenstliche Intelligenz (KI). Moderator ist
			Hans-Werner Hein (hein@damon.irf.uni-dortmund.de).
			(moderated)

	Josef
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                                                        Tel.: +49 6151 16-3638
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From: maillet@tls-cs.cert.fr (Luc Maillet)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Bayesian learning
Keywords: Learning, situation recognition
Date: 24 Jul 92 07:04:28 GMT
Organization: CERT Toulouse Dept of Computer Science, FRANCE


	Hello,

  I am currently working on Bayesian learning and its applications in
situation recognition. I would like to have some references on the topic.

			Thanks VM...

						Z.
From: fawcett@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Tom Fawcett)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: AI In the Year 2025 - Responses
Date: 28 Jul 92 21:51:24 GMT
Reply-To: fawcett@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Tom Fawcett)
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

These predictions remind me of a quote I saw recently in someone's signature,
maybe even on comp.ai:

> Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes
> and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum
> tubes and weigh only 1 1/2 tons.  ---Popular Mechanics, March 1949

I was also reminded of a picture entitled "New York City of the Future", drawn
around 1900 or so.  It featured lots of really large airships carrying
people around the city.

-Tom
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: ted@matilda.vut.edu.au (Ted Alwast)
Subject: dss for disaster management
Organization: Victoria University of Technology
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 06:05:47 GMT

do you know of any software for management of
disasters/hazardous events ? would be interested
to hear from anyone working in the area.
             ted alwast
             victoria university of technology

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From: niccum@cs.umn.edu (Tom Niccum)
Subject: FOR SALE: Journal Back Issues - JETAI
Summary: 12 Issues of JETAI for Sale
Keywords: JETAI Journal FORSALE
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:34:23 GMT



-- JOURNAL BACK ISSUES --
The Journal of Experimental and Theoretical AI
First twelve issues, Vol. 1/1 through 3/4

$30.00 + Shipping (estimated at $5.00)

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niccum@cs.umn.edu | University of Minnesota
        	  | 612-626-8084 or 612-624-7807
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Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.shells
From: bechdol@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jeff Bechdol)
Subject: Re: What shell to use
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:45:16 GMT
Reply-To: bechdol@vnet.ibm.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

Greetings!

In article <1992Jul21.192233.221@lincoln.ac.nz>, bishopg@lincoln.ac.nz writes:
|> Hi,
|> Recently i have started working with expert systems here in New Zealand.
|> [...]
|> My requirements are as follows;
|> 
|>   - can be developed and run on a PC
|>   - runs under either Windows or DOS
|>   - allows distibution of runtime applications
|>  
|> =======================================================================
|> Greg Bishop-Hurley                          Phone 64 3 3252 811 x8710
|> Research Officer                              Fax 64 3 3253 839
|> Farm Management Dept.                      E-Mail BISHOPG@LINCOLN.AC.NZ
|> Lincoln University
|> New Zealand

Windows or DOS?  I don't know of any system that approaches expertness within a
640k boundary :) ...actually you might try TIRS (The Integrated Reasoning Shell).
I know it runs on OS/2, AIX, and maybe even DOS.  I don't have a number you can
call, but I'm sure your local IBM Branch Office could have something faxed to
you.  If not, drop me a note offline.

-- 

                                                          Jeffery A. Bechdol
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."  IBM/ABS System Design II
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Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: milnes+@PISANO.SOAR.CS.CMU.EDU (Brian Milnes)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.edu,comp.robotics
Subject: Disclaimer: Bob Crane is NOT a Soar6er
Date: 23 Jul 92 18:41:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Jul23.184154.29481
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Originator: milnes@PISANO.SOAR.CS.CMU.EDU



 Folks,

 The Soar6 project, here at CMU School of Computer and elsewhere, has
just had brought to our attention this flurry of posts triggered by a
rather distasteful note from someone claiming to be "Bob D. Crane
(rdc@netcom.com)". 

 We have never heard of such a person, the university of Illinois has
not, nor do they have a "Blue Engineering Project, Symbolic Institute"
or a "School of Computer Science."

 This seems to be someone's idea of a joke, and he started his
signature with that one someone who works for us here.

 Please disregard anything he says associating him with Soar, the
School of Computer Science, or CMU, and enjoy/ignore his joke as 
you please.

 Thanks, Brian Milnes
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From: claird@NeoSoft.com (Cameron Laird)
Subject: Re: Mainstreaming AI
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:10:46 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.210706.25227@news.cs.indiana.edu> Michael Chui <mchui@spinner.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
>>In article <1992Jul29.203044.9047@mercury.unt.edu> danny@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Danny Faught) writes:
>>
>>My question is, do you know any examples of AI techniques of the past
>>that were considered AI when they were being developed, but are now 
>>considered commonplace and having nothing to do with AI?
			.
			.
			.
>	Graph search techniques such as depth-first, and breadth-first
>search were once considered AI.
>	Statistical classification systems were also once considered AI.
>(Some still are.  Are we statistical classification systems?  Followups
>to comp.ai.philosophy, probably.)
			.
			.
			.
I often chatter about how *all* AI techniques
enter the mainstream.  Early on, chess-playing
and theorem-proving were the paradigms of AI;
now, we know enough to see that those are speci-
alized domains, with techniques and results
which are specific, but accessible to alert
high-school students.
-- 

Cameron Laird
claird@Neosoft.com (claird%Neosoft.com@uunet.uu.net)	+1 713 267 7966
claird@litwin.com (claird%litwin.com@uunet.uu.net)  	+1 713 996 8546
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Expert systems and chess
From: dugerdil@uni2a.unige.ch
Date: 27 Jul 92 14:37:25 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland

Hi,
I am looking for references to state of the art applications of expert systems
to chess. Can anybody give me pointers to the appropriate 
articles/proceedings/journals/books ?
(Is there any newsgroup dealing with that topic ?)

What are the best papers to read about Deep Thought ?

Thanks in advance for any help.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Philippe Dugerdil
Conputing Center DJP
State of Geneva
Geneva/Switzerland

dugerdil@uni2a.unige.ch
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Xref: sparky comp.ai:2919 comp.ai.shells:373 comp.lang.prolog:1471
From: jon.oringer@brent.uucp (Jon Oringer) 
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: VIRTUAL REALITY
Date: 21 Jul 92 01:08:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Brentwood BBS Harrison, NY  914-835-7898
Reply-To: jon.oringer@brent.uucp (Jon Oringer) 

     I am really interested in Virtual Reality and I was wondering is
there are any specific conferences in USENET or other networks that
specialize in this field of artificial intelligence.  If anybody has any
information on where I can find discussion of this topic or anything
relevant to it,  please leave a message..

    Thanks..
                                                
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: cris@leland.Stanford.EDU (Cristopher Myers Niell)
Subject: Artificial life references
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 20:37:27 GMT

Hi !!
   I've just read a couple of magazine articles on artificial
life, and I was wondering if anyone could suggest some good
introductory books on the subject. Something somewhat technical
that would explain some of the current areas of research in
AL.
			Thank you !!
				Cris

Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: Michael Chui <mchui@spinner.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Mainstreaming AI
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:07:01 -0500

>In article <1992Jul29.203044.9047@mercury.unt.edu> danny@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Danny Faught) writes:
>
>My question is, do you know any examples of AI techniques of the past
>that were considered AI when they were being developed, but are now 
>considered commonplace and having nothing to do with AI?
>
>Danny Faught

	Graph search techniques such as depth-first, and breadth-first
search were once considered AI.
	Statistical classification systems were also once considered AI.
(Some still are.  Are we statistical classification systems?  Followups
to comp.ai.philosophy, probably.)

Michael Chui
mchui@cs.indiana.edu
From: erik@til.til.com (Erik Horstkotte)
Subject: Re: ML for Controlling Dynamic Physical Systems
Keywords: fuzzy control
Organization: Togai InfraLogic, Inc.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:06:01 GMT

If you're possibly interested in self-adaptive fuzzy expert systems 
controllers for time-varying systems, you probably should check out
the proceedings of the IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association)
conferences from 1989 through the present.  Each of these has several
papers on such things as self-configuring fuzzy control systems,
using neural network training techniques on fuzzy expert systems, etc.
-- 
Erik Horstkotte, Manager, Software Development, Togai InfraLogic, Inc.
erik@til.til.com, uunet!til!erik - (714) 975-8522
Standard disclaimer: the preceding are my opinions, not TIL's.
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: kattan@Rosie.UH.EDU (Mike Kattan)
Subject: Analog Concept Learning System
Reply-To: kattan@Rosie.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:03:37 GMT

Does anyone have any information on ordering ACLS such as address or
pricing?  Thanks.

___________________________________________________________________________
Mike Kattan                       | Internet: kattan@jetson.uh.edu         
Decision and Information Sciences | Bitnet:   kattan@uhupvm1  kattan@jetson
University of Houston             | Phone:    (713) 743-4734  Fax: 743-4693
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From: dhg@scs.carleton.ca (Daryl Herbert Graf)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Training Data for Machine Learning of "Reusability" Concept
Date: 21 Jul 92 17:42:11 GMT
Reply-To: dhg@scs.carleton.ca
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

I am involved in a project in which machine learning techniques
will be used to classify software modules as "reusable" or not.
The learning system will require example modules that have been
pre-classified by a human expert. Our general approach is an 
extension of that described in 

Esteva, J.C., Reynolds, R.G., 1991, Identifying Reusable Software 
   Components by Induction, Intl. Journal of Software Engineering 
   and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp 271-292

My question is: Where can I best obtain a database of positive and 
negative examples of reusable software source ? Are there moderately
large libraries that are considered particularly "good" examples
of reusable code by those in the S.E. field ? (e.g. FTPable source,
academic databases, commercial libraries, interested software houses,
etc). Any information, commentary, suggestions, ideas would be 
appreciated. I will post a summary if sufficient interest is generated.

Daryl Graf
School of Computer Science
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
dhg@csc.carleton.ca
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Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
Date: Wednesday, 29 Jul 1992 08:41:07 +02
From: Philip Vanneste <FZAAE02@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.shells
Subject: Re: What shell to use
 <1992Jul23.150526.21681@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1992Jul23.221934.8775@wpi.WPI.EDU>

You should also have a look at ADS (AION DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM),
which is a very powerful shell, running on DOS, Windows, Sun and
probably other platforms.
It has a very powerful inference engine and an object-oriented
knowledge representation language.
Links to and from other languages (C, Pascal, ...) are also possible.

Philip Vanneste
K.U. Leuven Campus Kortrijk
Belgium
FZAAE02@blekul11.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.cognitive
From: David Leake <leake@borneo.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Evaluating Explanations:  Correction to announcement
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:19:38 -0500

In the publication announcement for David Leake's _Evaluating
Explanations:  A Content Theory_, two digits in the toll-free number
for Lawrence Erlbaum Associates were transposed.  Instead of
1-800-926-6597, the correct number is 1-800-926-6579.

Newsgroups: comp.compression
From: ealehman@athena.mit.edu (Eric A Lehman)
Subject: digraph compression
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 23:00:17 GMT

I would like to compress a directed graph, but still be able to
determine whether one node points to another directly from the
compressed file.  Any suggestions?

                                      Eric Lehman
                                      ealehman@athena.mit.edu