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AIList Digest Volume 4 Issue 225
AIList Digest Sunday, 19 Oct 1986 Volume 4 : Issue 225
Today's Topics:
Queries - Statistical Expert Systems &
Workshop on AI in Natural Resources and Environmental Planning,
Expert Systems - Savior & FRL,
Bibliography - Correction
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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 86 09:18:10 SET
From: "Adlassnig, Peter"
Subject: Statistical expert systems
We are interested in building a statistical expert system that is
intended to be used by physicians from our Medical School.
We would like to obtain information about
1) statistical expert systems in general
a) at universities and laboratories
b) commercially available systems
2) statistical expert systems in medicine
Any information is appreciated.
Peter Adlassnig, Department of Medical Computer Sciences, University of
Vienna Medical School
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Date: 16 Oct 86 14:49:00 GMT
From: osiris!chandra@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: GIS, Environmental, Nat. Resources
Applications of AI in NATURAL RESOURCES and
ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING
Hi,
Recently, Molly Stock (of Univ. of Idaho) conducted a survey of AI applications
to forestry management. Her findings are pleasantly surprising. A
large number of universities and government agencies are currently building
interesting AI applications.
Sparked by the survey, we are now planning on holding a
NATIONAL WORKSHOP in this area. The purpose of this workshop is to
bring researchers together under one roof. We envision this workshop
as an opportunity for researchers to share ideas and lay down
directions for future research.
This letter is a probe. I'm trying to get a sense of "WHAT'S OUT
THERE". The areas covered are:
- Environmental Planning & management.
- Env Impact Statements
- Geographic Info Systems
- Natural Resource planning
- Environmental Modeling
- Other related areas
If you are involved in any such research and/or would be interested in
participating in a WORKSHOP, please contact me at the address below:
US-MAIL:
D. Navinchandra
Intelligent Engineering Systems Lab.
Room 1-241
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA02139
ARPA-NET:
dchandra@athena.mit.edu
Phone:
(617)577-8047 (call first)
(617)253-3880 (call if no answer at above number)
If you are currently involved in some projects and or have technical
reports, I'd like to know about them. After this survey is complete,
a formal Announcement will be promulgated.
THANKS
D. Navinchandra
IESL, MIT
(p.s. At the IESL,MIT we are working on building tools to build
Knowledge Based systems for Geographic Info Systems. We are doing this
research in collaboration with the Environmental group of the
Construction Engineering Research Lab, Champaign Illinois)
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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 86 10:36:21 BST
From: J W T Smith (JWS AT UKACRL) <JWS%ibm-b.rutherford.ac.uk@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
Subject: General purpose ES for VM
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, R1, 2.81, Ext 6487
In response to the request from Linda Littleton of PSU for information on an
Expert System for VM/CMS.
The Expert System shell called Savior is available for VM. It also runs on
PCs, Vaxes, Primes and other minis and micros. We have only used the PC
version.
The cost (for the VM version) in the UK is 15k pounds but they offer a good
educational discount, at least they do in the UK.
The producing company is,
ISI Ltd
11 Oakdene Road
Redhill
Surrey RH1 7BT.
United Kingdom.
Telephone 0737 71327
I'm afraid I don't have a US address for ISI.
John Smith.
Bitnet: JWS at UKACRL
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Date: 16 Oct 86 16:51:00 GMT
From: mcvax!ukc!einode!robert@seismo.css.gov (Robert Cochran)
Subject: Re: Public Domain Software for Expert Systems
>> From: meh@hou2d.UUCP (P.MEHROTRA)
>> Date: 11 Oct 86 22:06:27 GMT
>> Hi: I am looking for some software available in public domain
>> for building expert systems. I work in Unix environment and
>> have Franz LISP on my system. I already have OPS5. I am especially
>> interested in tools which use frames and/or semantic networks
>> for knowledge representation.
There is a full implementation of a Frame Representation Language being
distributed by a company in Ireland called Generics (Software) Ltd.
This FRL runs in any advanced lisp dialect - CommonLISP, FranzLISP, etc. -
on machines ranging from an IBM-PC to microVAX and VAX.
It's not exactly public domain stuff but it's not expensive
either ($300 - $500), and special licences are available for educational
institutions.
If interested, I suggest you contact them directly for further information
at : ....!mcvax!einode!genrix!mcgee.
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Date: 16 Oct 86 09:55 EDT
From: WAnderson.wbst@Xerox.COM
Subject: Incorrect AIList Bibliographic Reference
The following reference was passed on to me from one of the AILists (I
don't know which one).
%A Klaus-Peter Adlassnig
%T Fuzzy Set Theory in Medical Diagnosis
%J IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
%D NOV 1985
%V SE-11
%N 11
%P 260-265
%K AA01 AI01 O04
%X They developed systems for diagnosing rheumatologic diseases and
pancreatic
disorders. They achieved 94.5 and 100 percent accuracy, respectively.
I tried looking this up in my collection of IEEE Trans on SE, but it's
not there. Nov 1985 is an issue on AI, but there is no mention of Fuzzy
Set theory. In addition, the Nov 85 issue begins with page 1253. Also,
a perusal of the index of the Transactions for 1985 reveals no author
with the name Klaus-Peter Adlassnig, and only one entry in the subject
index under Fuzzy Sets: "Estimating in correctness of computer program
viewed as set of heirarchically structured fuzzy equivalence classes, by
F.B. Bastani, Sep 85, pp 857-864." Finally, pages 260 - 265 of Vol
SE-11 contain an article by David Parnas, et. al., titled "The Modular
Structure of Complex Systems."
So here we have an example of an incorrect, online, bibliographic
reference. I wonder how many other mistakes are made when this sort of
data is entered. This is progress? ("Our entire card catalog is
online, but we still can't find anything ...." :-)
I wonder if this is in the new IEEE publication on expert systems,
Expert Magazine?
Bill Anderson
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Date: WED, 10 JAN 84 17:02:23 CDT
From: E1AR0002%SMUVM1.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
Subject: mistake
The corrected citations are indicated below. Sadly, several references
from an issue of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics got
misattributed to an issue of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
within ai.bib36 due to an editing mistake.
Of the 2600 references sent out in this format, this is first complaint
I got about an error in one of the citations.
Of the three complaints I got about mistakes in a summary of something
I sent in, only one turned out to be my fault. The other two statements
were checked successfully against the article in question so the error was
on the part of the original author. I thus consider my error rate reasonable.
Typing in references by hand is something that I will probably only be
doing for a few more years. I suspect by then, I will get an optical
disk with all the journals on them and extract the informaiton
directly. One publisher is already putting a bar-code like strip with
the table of contents in issues of their magazines.
I wonder whether it would be legal for someone to get a selective
dissemination service from a database provider like Dialog or ISI and
pipe that into AIList. I believe SIGART publishes the result of a
search of dissertation abstracts for AI related material on a regular
basis and SIGPLAN used to do the same for the NTIS database for
programming language materials.
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%A G. R. Dattatreya
%A L. N. Kanal
%T Adaptive Pattern Recognition with Random Costs and Its Applications to
Decision Trees
%J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
%D MAR/APR 1986
%V SMC-16
%N 2
%P 208-218
%K AI06 AA01 AI04 AI01 clustering spina bifida bladder radiology
%X applies clustering algorithm to results of reading radiographs of
the bladder. The system was able to determine clusters that corresponded
to those of patients with spina bifida.
%A Klaus-Peter Adlassnig
%T Fuzzy Set Theory in Medical Diagnosis
%J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
%D MAR/APR 1986
%V SMC-16
%N 2
%K AA01 AI01 O04
%X They developed systems for diagnosing rheumatologic diseases and pancreatic
disorders. They achieved 94.5 and 100 percent accuracy, respectively.
%A William E. Pracht
%T GISMO: A Visual PRoblem Structuring and Knowledge-Organization Tool
%J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
%D MAR/APR 1986
%V SMC-16
%N 2
%P 265-270
%K AI13 AI08 Witkin Geft AA06
%X discusses the use of a system for displaying effect diagrams on
decision making in a simulated business environment. The tool improved
net income production. The tool provided more assistance to those
who were more analytical than to those who used heuristic reasoning as
measured by the Witkin GEFT.
%A Henri Farreny
%A Henri Prade
%T Default and Inexact Reasoning with Possiblity Degrees
%J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
%D MAR/APR 1986
%V SMC-16
%N 2
%P 270-276
%K O04 AI01 AA06
%X discusses storing for each proposition, a pair consisting of the
probability that it is true
and probability that it is false where these two probabilities do not
necessarily add up to 1. Inference rules have been developed for such
a system including analogs to modus ponens, modus tollens and how to
combine two such ordered pairs applying to the same fact. These have
been applied to an expert system in financial analysis.
%A Chelsea C. White, III
%A Edward A. Sykes
%T A User Preference Guided Approach to Conflict Resolution in
Rule-Based Expert Systems
%J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
%D MAR/APR 1986
%V SMC-16
%N 2
%P 276-278
%K AI01 multiattribute utility theory
%X discusses an application of multiattribute utility theory to
resolve conflicts between rules in an expert system.
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