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AIList Digest Volume 5 Issue 266
AIList Digest Friday, 13 Nov 1987 Volume 5 : Issue 266
Today's Topics:
Queries - Event-Based Reasoning & Prolog Parser &
Object-Oriented Database & Full-Text Search Program &
Brain Science Programs & VTLISP & Statistical Expert Systems &
Expert System Benchmarking & Environmental Impact Assessment &
MacBrain & Animal Behavior
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Date: 6 Nov 87 06:43:21 GMT
From: kddlab!titcca!secisl!tau@uunet.uu.net ("Yatchan" TAUCHI)
Subject: What is Event-Based Reasoning (In English)
In <8710220645.AA25064@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Seminar "Event-Based Reasoning
for Multiagent Domains (Bendix & BBN)" is announced.
Please someone tell me what Event-Based Reasoning is or introduce any
papers on this topics, if any.
Thanks in advance
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Yasuyuki TAUCHI, SECOM IS-Lab, Tokyo, JAPAN
Net: tau%seclab.junet@uunet.UU.NET
UUCP: ...!{seismo,uunet}!kddlab!titcca!secisl!tau
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Date: 30 Oct 87 06:07:12 GMT
From: kddlab!icot32!nttlab!ouicsu!ics750!feng@uunet.uu.net (Hyou An)
Subject: A Parser writen in Prolog (In English)
I'm trying to construct a Prolog Based Translator Generator. What I wnat to do
is as follows:
1.To specify the translator in Attribute Grammar(AG)
(or a form based on AG)
2.To generate a translator specified by AG
(1)To translate AG into a efficient form automatically.
For example, rewrite a LL(k) grammar into LL(m) (m<k), etc.
(2)To generate a translator (in Prolog) from the optimized AG.
(3)To transforme the Prolog program into an efficient one.
This work is for my PhD degree. I am therefore interested in any work on:
. Attribute Grammar and Syntax Directed Translation
. Efficient LL(k) paser
. Language system based on Prolog
. Transformation system
Is there anyone out there doing or interested in similar work?
Any comments and suggestions will be helpful.
An Feng
Date: 29-Oct-1987
Tel No: 06-844-1151(Ext.4816)
Airmail: Department of Information and Computer Sciences
Faculty of Engineering Science
Osaka University
Toyonaka,Osaka
560, Japan
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Date: 9 Nov 87 17:48:51 GMT
From: bbn!mfidelma@husc6.harvard.edu (Miles Fidelman)
Subject: object oriented database query
Can anyone point me to work in the area of applying database technology
to supporting object oriented environments?
It strikes me that database technology tends to focus on supporting large
production databases, with attention to fast processing speeds, maintaining
database integrity, journalizing/checkpointing, etc.; while object oriented
environments are basically prototyping environments.
Has anyone been working on making a production object oriented environment?
Thanks much,
Miles Fidelman
email to: mfidelman@bbn.com
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Date: 9 Nov 87 21:22:59 GMT
From: cos!hqda-ai!merlin@uunet.uu.net (David S. Hayes)
Subject: Need Full-text-search program for AI work
We're looking for hardware/software to allow scanning of
hardcopy documents. After scanning, we want to be able to search
the text to look for keywords, and pull up the relevant portion of
the document. I've never seen anything exactly like this, but
maybe (hopefully :-) someone out there has.
How 'bout it? Any suggestions, for either hardware or
software. We've got Suns and Symbolics, so we're flexible.
Company names and phone numbers are nice, user recommendations
even better.
Please reply via mail.
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David S. Hayes, The Merlin of Avalon PhoneNet: (202) 694-6900
UUCP: *!uunet!cos!hqda-ai!merlin ARPA: ai01@hios-pent.arpa
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Date: 9 Nov 87 15:56:46 GMT
From: ihnp4!laidbak!spl1!wheaton!johnh@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (John Doc
Hayward)
Subject: Brain Science Programs
What CS courses are offered in Colleges and Universities which
are part of an undergraduate 'Brain Science' program?
Are the courses taught by CS faculty either individually or
team taught with members of different discipline?
What prerequisites in CS would be required for courses. What
does the 'program' consist of?
Any helpful comments or suggestions will be appreciated. If there is enough
interest I will summarize responses. johnh...
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UUCP: ihnp4!wheaton!johnh telephone: (312) 260-3871 (office)
Mail: John Hayward Math/Computer Science Dept. Wheaton College Wheaton Il 60187
Act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8b
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Date: 10 Nov 87 17:53:48 GMT
From: nrl-cmf!ukma!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!gollum!dowell@ames.arpa
(dowell)
Subject: Request for VTLISP
Would some kind soul please send the source code for VTLISP.
It was recently written about in AIEXPERT magzine(May?).
Thanks,
ncrcae!gollum!dowell
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Date: Wed 11 Nov 87 21:44:33-PST
From: Laurence I. Press <LPRESS@venera.isi.edu>
Subject: Statistical Exp. Sys. Query
Can anyone give me pointers to programs and/or papers on statistical
applications of expert systems?
Larry
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Date: Wed 11 Nov 87 21:49:15-PST
From: Laurence I. Press <LPRESS@venera.isi.edu>
Subject: Exp. Sys. Benchmarking Query
Can anyone supply pointers to papers on benchmarking and performance
evaluation for expert system shells?
I have written a short program that generates stylized rule bases of
a specified length and have used it to generate comparative test cases
for PC Plus and M1. I'd be happy to give anyone a copy and would like
to learn of other efforts to compare expert system shells.
Larry
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Date: 12 Nov 87 12:13 -0400
From: Jan Mulder <mulder@cs.dal.cdn>
Subject: Environmental Impact Assessment
The school for Resource and Environmental Studies at Dalhousie
University is initiating a research project for the Canadian Federal
Environmental Assessment and Review office (FEARO), of current and
potential uses of computer-based expert systems, artificial
intelligence, and decision support tools for environmental impact
assessment (EIA) and management. FEARO has recently begun supporting
some development work in this field, but has commissioned this project
to provide strategic guidance for any further commitments of support
which it may make.
Although the project encompasses applications of these technologies
in all aspects of EIA, we are particularly interested in these
applications as they may relate to the initial screening and scoping
stages of the impact assessment process.
With regard to potential applications of these systems we are interested
in the details of any recent or on-going research and development, and
the resulting prospects and problems identified. With regard to actually
operational systems, there are a number of aspects of interest to us:
the structure and scope of such systems, when and how the system was
developed, present users of the system and the purpose of use, evaluations
of the advantages/disadvantages of the system, and the costs of
development, maintenance and updating.
If you are, or have been involved in any research or development work
applied to environmental assessment and management, would you please
send details to Alan Gray (Project Manager) at the address below. We
are planning to produce a draft report by December 31, 1987, and
conduct a symposium in January, 1988. We therefore request your reply
at your earliest convenience. Please do not hesitate to contact us
for any matter of clarification.
Alan Gray
School for Resource and Environmental Studies
Dalhousie University
1312 Robie St.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3H 3E2
phone: (902) 424-2589 or (902) 424-3632
e-mail: DUAB005@DAL.BITNET
Would you please bring the request to the attention of any of your
colleagues who may be able to help us.
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Date: 12 Nov 87 18:01:13 GMT
From: sgi!wdl1!jtd@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Jeffrey T. DeMello)
Subject: MacBrain - Nural-Network Simulator
Has anyone out there in "network-land" ever
seen/heard of/used/reviewed a nural-network
simulator called MACBRAIN?
If so, please enlighten me!!!
jtd@ford-wdl1.arpa
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 19:03:09 PST
From: Dan Shapiro <dan@ads.arpa>
Subject: animal behavior and AI
I am looking for someone who would be interested in discussing some
ideas that involve both the fields of animal behavior and planning as
a subdiscipline of AI. My goal is to develop a realistic view of what
planning means to simple animals (at the level of ants for example)
and use that information to motivate planning architectures within AI.
Within this context, my focal point is to look at *errors* in animal
behavior, as when ants build circular bridges out of their own bodies,
and the ones on top simply run themselves to death. This should give
a sense for the limitations of animal planning and also prevent us
from anthropormorphizing to extremes; the temptation is to view
behavior like the above as goal directed and related to our concept of
"bridge building", when the presence of the error indicates that
something much more primitive is going on. From the little I have
seen of literature in the behavioral sciences, this type of
projection is fairly common.
In any case, as a first step, I'd like to gather multiple examples of
errors in animal behavior. If there are any ethologists,
sociobiologists, neuroanatomists, computer scientists or just plain
armchair behaviorists out there who have something to say on this
topic, please contact me.
Dan Shapiro
dan@ads.com
415 941-3912
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