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AIList Digest Thursday, 2 Jun 1988 Volume 7 : Issue 10
Today's Topics:
expert systems in the railroad industry
Re: ai languages on unix wanted
Connectionist Medical Expert Systems
Re: References Needed: Case based reasoning
References re AI in weather forecasting?
Re: References re AI in weather forecasting?
Traveling Salesman Problem (a request)
BRAINS
Re: ai languages on unix wanted (Poplog availability)
Re: Genetic algorithms
Connectionist reference wanted
ai expert system shells for IBM AT or compatibles
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Date: 24 May 88 07:07:08 GMT
From: portal!cup.portal.com!Barry_A_Stevens@uunet.uu.net
Subject: expert systems in the railroad industry
A man with Canadian Pacific Railway in Montreal has built an expert system
which works in conjunction with a gas chromatograph and/or spectrograph to
perform an analysis of the oil in large engines. By looking for the metals
that are carried in the oil, expensive engine failures are found in
advance. They are claiming some impressive savings.
The details are not at hand now. If interested, please call or write,
I'll try to help.
Barry Stevens
Applied AI Systems
PO Box 2747
Del Mar CA 92014
619-755-7231
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Date: 24 May 88 15:54:25 GMT
From: nyser!cmx!jfbrule@itsgw.rpi.edu (Jim Brule)
Subject: Re: ai languages on unix wanted
>} I am starting a Master's thesis and am interested in finding
>} an artifical intelligence language that either runs under Unix or
>} can be ported to a Unix system.
>
Try POPLOG: three "AI languages" (LISP, PROLOG, POP-11) in a single
environment. Nice online help, nice interfaces between the languages
(or at least, more often than not), and Common Lisp. Contact Robin
Popplestone at UMass Amherst.
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Date: 25 May 88 17:59:16 GMT
From: bhb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Barry Blumenfeld)
Subject: Connectionist Medical Expert Systems
Can anyone give me pointers to people developing medical expert systems
using a connectionist architecture?
Barry Blumenfeld
bhb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu
bhbst@cisunx.UUCP
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Date: 26 May 88 12:09:01 GMT
From: aplcen!jhunix!apl_aimh@mimsy.umd.edu (Marty Hall)
Subject: Re: References Needed: Case based reasoning
In article <4007@csli.STANFORD.EDU> leey@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Yichin Lee) writes:
>
>Could anyone point me to some good references to Case Based Reasoning?
Try the Proceedings of the 1988 DARPA Case-Based Reasoning Workshop that just
took place in (beautiful! :-) Clearwater Beach, Florida. The Proceedings were
edited by Janet Kolodner and included some earlier AAAI papers as well as
new ones. Morgan Kaufmann published the proceedings, so assumedly you can get
it from them: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 2929 Campus Dr, San Mateo, CA
94403. ISBN # for the proceedings is 0-934613-93-1.
Regards-
- Marty Hall
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Hunt Valley, MD 21030 (301) 683-6455
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Date: 26 May 88 15:53:01 GMT
From: aplcen!jhunix!apl_aimh@mimsy.umd.edu (Marty Hall)
Subject: References re AI in weather forecasting?
Any pointers on where to look re AI in weather forecasting? I have a couple
from AI in Engineering Proceedings, but can't find any others.
Thanks!
- Marty Hall
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Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MS 100/601, AAI Corp, PO Box 126,
Hunt Valley, MD 21030 (301) 683-6455
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Date: 27 May 88 14:29:34 GMT
From: bbn.com!aboulang@bbn.com (Albert Boulanger)
Subject: Re: References re AI in weather forecasting?
The Environmental sciences group at NOAA research labs in Boulder has
been holding a yearly meeting called AIRES (AI Research in
Environmental Science). I don't know if they are having a meeting this
year. A point of contact would be William Moninger at the NOAA Labs. I
attended the first one. The following is some info on projects that I
know of:
Synoptic Scale forecasting over Canada.
"Knowledge Representation in an Expert Storm Forecasting System"
Renee Ellio & Johannes de Haan
IJCAI 85
&
"Representing Quantitative and Qualitative Knowledge in a Knowledge-Based
Storm-Forecasting System
Renee Ellio & Johannes de Haan
Int. J. Man-Machine Studies (1986) 25, 523-547
The survey (very brief!) paper you saw:
"Expert Systems in Meteorology"
Benoit Faller
AI in Engineering proceedings
Mentions the Canada work, fog forecasting, & Avalanche prediction
Severe thunderstorm forecasting.
"Validation of a Weather Forecasting Expert System"
Steven Zubrick, Radian Corp.
Machine Intelligence Workshop II Loch Lomond, Scotland, March 1985.
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"RuleMaster: An Expert System to Aid in Severe Thunderstorm Forecasting"
Steven Zubrick & Charles Reise
14th Conference on Severe Local Storms, Indianapolis, IN, Oct. 29- Nov
1, 1985.
Downbust detection from doppler radar.
Steve Campbell MIT Lincoln Labs
Visibility prediction for airports.
Mark Stunder Geomet (Contract with AFGL Hanscomb AFB)
Some PROFS related work (ARCHER), William Moninger NOAA ERL.
Short term mesoscale forecasting (nowcasting) over the Cape Canaveral area
for NASA.
James Davis & Robert McArthur ADL Inc.
Solar flare forecasting (THEO).
Patrick McIntosh
NOAA Space Environmental Laboratory, Boulder.
Recognizing patterns from weather maps.
Bill Havens, University of British Columbia.
Downslope snowfall forecasting.
George Swetnam Mitre Corp & Richard Bunting UCAR.
There are of course other environment-related projects/ideas:
flood prediction, forest-fire modeling/prediction (Don Latham at the
BLM, Missoula Mont. is a point of contact here.)
I am sure I have left projects out.
Now the funding picture for weather expert systems in the USA. NOAA's
money is mostly for operational tasks. They do conduct research, but
mostly in-house (PROFS for instance). NASA is a possible source of
funding. ALBM project at DARPA has a weather forecasting component.
NEXRAD (joint military and NOAA) doppler radar project may have some
money. AWIPS 90 (next weather forecasting system for the 90's NOAA) has
a short description of expert system needs. FAA & BLM are also
possibilities. Perhaps the best possibility would be to build
nowcasting systems in the private sector.
My apologies for any errors in my listing.
Albert Boulanger
aboulanger@bbn.com
BBN Labs.
Albert Boulanger
BBN Labs Inc.
ABoulanger@bbn.com (arpa)
Phone: (617)873-3891
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Date: Fri, 27 May 88 12:00:20 EDT
From: csrobe@icase.arpa (Charles S. Roberson)
Subject: Traveling Salesman Problem (a request)
Greetings,
I am currently doing some work with the TSP and as a result I would like
help from the net in obtaining two items:
(1) a standard algorithm that currently performs well on the TSP,
and
(2) maps of cities that are used in classical/pathological cases.
Particularly, we would like the code used by S. Lin and B. W. Kernighan
in "An Effective Heuristic Algorithm for the Traveling-Salesman Problem"
published in _Operations_Research_ (1973), Vol 21, pp. 498-516. For the
cities, we would like problems with 20 to 100 cities given in x-y coordinates,
if possible.
Off course *any* tidbit of information that someone is willing to share
will be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks,
-c
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Date: 28 May 88 20:35:30 GMT
From: well!jjacobs@lll-lcc.llnl.gov (Jeffrey Jacobs)
Subject: BRAINS
The current issue of IEEE Expert has a sidebar on Expert Systems
developed in Japan; the majority of them were developed in something
called "Brains"; is anybody familiar with this tool? Referecnes,
or exposition is desired.
-Jeff Jacobs, CONSART Systems Inc., Technical & Managerial Consultants
-P.O. Box 3016, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, (213)376-3802
-BIX: jeffjacobs, CIS: 75076,2603, USENET: jjacobs@WELL
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Date: 30 May 88 15:04:10 GMT
From: mcvax!ukc!warwick!cvaxa!aarons@uunet.uu.net (Aaron Sloman)
Subject: Re: ai languages on unix wanted (Poplog availability)
>Subject: ai languages on unix wanted
>From: gabe@viusys.UUCP (Gabe Nault @ Unisys, D.A. MINIS PMO, McLean, VA)
>Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.ai
>>From: flash@ee.qmc.ac.uk
>> (Flash Sheridan @ EE Dept, Queen Mary College, U London E1-4NS)
>>Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.ai
>>Look at PopLog. It's got an okay Common Lisp and a Prolog, plus Pop-11.
Thanks for the plug. However, I must make a couple of minor corrections.
1. Standard ML is also available in Poplog as an optional extra.
>>It's cheap or free to academics.
2. It is (was) free only to SERC/Alvey-funded academics in the UK, though
academic discounts for others are generally large (e.g. 80 to 85%).
>>Try aarons@cvaxa.susx.ac.uk
3. Although Poplog is developed at Sussex University we don't handle
most of the distribution. We distribute only for UK academics, who should
contact:
Alison Mudd - alim@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk or
School of Cognitive Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QN - phone 0273 - 606755
For Academic enquiries/sales in USA and Canada about Poplog or Alphapop
(reviewed in Byte May 1988 - but only runs on Mac at present), contact
Prof Robin Popplestone
Dept. of Computer and Information Science
Lederle Graduate Research Center
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Email pop@cs.umass.edu
or
Prof Robin Popplestone
Computable Functions Inc.,
35 South Orchard Drive,
Amherst, MA 01002, USA Phone(413) 253-7637
For non-academic enquiries/sales of Poplog in USA/Canada
Systems Designers International Inc
Industrial Division
New Castle Corporate Commons,
55 Read's Way,
New Castle,
Delaware 19720, USA
Phone (302) 323 1900 (800)888-9988
elsewhere
The AI Business Centre
SD-Scicon
Pembroke House,
Pembroke Broadway
Camberley, Surrey, GU15 3XD
Phone +44 (276) 686200
>>From: flash@ee.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
>>Reply-To: sheridan@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
>>or_perhaps_Reply_to: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk
I hope this information is helpful.
Aaron Sloman,
School of Cognitive Sciences, Univ of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QN, England
ARPANET : aarons%uk.ac.sussex.cvaxa@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
aarons%uk.ac.sussex.cvaxa%nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk@relay.cs.net
JANET aarons@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk
BITNET: aarons%uk.ac.sussex.cvaxa@uk.ac
or aarons%uk.ac.sussex.cvaxa%ukacrl.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
As a last resort (it costs us more...)
UUCP: ...mcvax!ukc!cvaxa!aarons
or aarons@cvaxa.uucp
Phone: University +(44)-(0)273-678294 (Direct line. Diverts to secretary)
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Date: 30 May 88 16:46:17 GMT
From: pollux.usc.edu!pi@oberon.usc.edu (Bill Pi)
Subject: Re: Genetic algorithms
In article <317@mmlai.UUCP> barash@mmlai.UUCP (Rev. Steven C. Barash) writes:
>
>A while back someone posted an extended definition of "Genetic algorithms".
>If anyone still has that, or has their own definition, could you please
>e-mail it to me? (There's probably lots of room for opinions here;
>I'm interested in all perspectives).
>
>I would also appreciate any pointers to literature in this area.
Up till now, there are two conferences held already for Genetic Algorithms:
Proceeding of the First International Conference on Genetic Algorithms and
Their Applications, ed. J. J. Grefenstette, 1985.
Genetic Algorithms and Their Applications: Proceeding of the Second Inter-
national Conference o Genetic Algorithms, ed. J. J. Grefenstette, 1987.
They can be ordered from:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
365 Broadway
Hillsdale, NJ 07642
(201) 666-4110
A latest collection of research notes on GA is
Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing, ed. L. Davis, 1987, Morgan kaufmann
Publishers, Inc., Los Altos, Ca.
Also, A mailing list exists for Genetic Algorithms researchers. For more info.
send mail to "GA-List-Request@NRL-AIC.ARPA".
Jen-I Pi :-) UUCP: {sdcrdcf,cit-cav}!oberon!durga!pi
Department of Electrical Engineering CSnet: pi@usc-cse.csnet
University of Southern California Bitnet: pi@uscvaxq
Los Angeles, Ca. 90089-0781 InterNet: pi%durga.usc.edu@oberon.USC.EDU
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Date: Mon, 30 May 88 22:32:18 PDT
From: John B. Nagle <jbn@glacier.stanford.edu>
Subject: Connectionist reference wanted
What's a good recent book on current connectionist thinking? I've
read PDP, and Hillis' thesis, of course, but want something which summarizes
recent mainstream thinking in the field.
Are energetic approaches along the lines of Witkin, Kass, and
Khatib, or the related simulated annealing techniques, considered connectionist?
I write this with trepidation, knowing the predeliction of this group
to engage in interminable definitional arguments. So please, don't reply
to other replies to this query. I am asking so that I can get a feeling
of where my own work might be considered to fit.
John Nagle
[A thought: if these energetic techniques catch on, we are all going to have
to study tensor calculus.]
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Date: 1 Jun 88 23:10:47 GMT
From: frants@polya.stanford.edu (Leonid Frants)
Subject: ai expert system shells for IBM AT or compatibles
I'm looking for an expert system shell running on a IBM PC/AT and
compatibles. It must have an interface to C or some other programming
language. The price up to $2000, but the cheaper the better. Any advice
or help would be appreciated. It should handle numeric data easily.
Thanks,
replies to:
Leonid Frants
frants@polya.stanford.edu
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