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AIList Digest Volume 7 Issue 032
AIList Digest Tuesday, 14 Jun 1988 Volume 7 : Issue 32
Today's Topics:
Queries:
Traveling Salesman Problem
Reveal Expert System Shell
Help with TI Personal Consultant Plus
Seminars:
Proposed seminar - "The Computer Experience and the Human Spirit"
Symposium on Computer Graphics Education
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Date: 10 Jun 88 12:42:35 GMT
From: Pat Prosser <mcvax!cs.strath.ac.uk!pat@uunet.UU.NET>
Reply-to: mcvax!cs.strath.ac.uk!pat@uunet.UU.NET
Subject: Re: [csrobe@icase.arpa: Traveling Salesman Problem (a
request)]
Just incase: two search strategies tried on the TSP recently
have been Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithms. Papers
that cover the TSP and these techniques are:
Optimisation by Simulated Annealing, Kirkpatrick, Gelatt and Vecchi,
Science, May 1983, Volume 220, pages 671-680. This paper compares SA
to Lin and Kernighan.
Allels, Loci, and the Traveling Salesman Problem, Goldberg and Lingle
Probably in one of the Proceedings on GA.
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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 88 15:25:32 PDT
From: wahl%cookie.DEC@decwrl.dec.com (Dave Wahl Database AD CX01
522-3115)
Subject: Reveal Expert System Shell
Tymshare was marketing a tool called Reveal (which was developed at ICU,
I think) which was targeted at MIS applications. It uses (used?) a
pattern matching technique based on fuzzy set membership.
Does anybody know what happened to Reveal? Is it still on the market?
Does Tymshare still sell it? A contact name and phone number or
email address would be appreciated.
Dave Wahl
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Date: 12 Jun 88 18:45:44 GMT
From: killer!usl!skb@ames.arpa (Sanjiv K. Bhatia)
Subject: Help with TI Personal Consultant Plus
I have been developing an application for information retrieval using TI PC+.
I need to have a control over assignment of certainty factors dynamically
within the program. For example, I need to specify the rules in the form:
IF: condition x
THEN: consequent y CF z
where z is to be picked up from a variable assignment and is not explicitly
specified in the rule.
Can anyone tell me if PC+ is capable of taking such rules, or how it can be
done in PC+ ?
In any case, can this kind of rules be specified using some other ES shell
which also has an interface with a DBMS, preferably dBASE II or III?
Thanks in advance.
Sanjiv
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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 88 14:59:26 PDT
From: hodges@violet.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Proposed seminar - "The Computer Experience and the Human
Spirit"
Proposal for a Seminar:
The Computer Experience and the Human Spirit
I am planning a seminar-workshop with a a working title of "The
Computer Experience and the Human Spirit". Jacob Needleman, Professor
of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, who is well known for
his books and seminars on the inner quest, has expressed interest in
this subject and suggested that he and I might offer such a program if
there is sufficient response.
It would be held in San Francisco and would consist of one or two
whole days' work together on a weekend, with presentations, exercises,
and exchanges among the participants. There would be a fee.
We would like to invite all who share an interest and concern about
the growing influence of computers on our inner as well as outer life
to participate. This would include those who work with computers
professionally, philosophers and spiritual explorers who wish to
understand how to approach the computer, and those for whom the
computer has become an inescapable fact of their daily lives.
Questions which we would like to explore include:
Do computers liberate or enslave us?
The computer as a creative medium.
What does the experience of working with computers help us
to understand about ourselves and our place in the world
order?
What new insights, metaphors, and values can be developed
from the computer experience? What are their potential
benefits and pitfalls?
How can we improve the quality of our relationships with
computers?
I am sending this out to invite commentary, suggestions, and
expressions of interest in participation. Please respond by e-mail or
telephone, or letter.
Also, if you are in touch with any other individuals, groups, or
mailing lists of people who might be interested, please forward this
message (and let me know).
Richard Hodges
hodges@violet.berkeley.edu
(415)268-3656
650 Calmar
Oakland CA, 94610
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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 88 22:24:38 EDT
From: "William J. Joel" <JZEM%MARIST.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Symposium on Computer Graphics Education
SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS EDUCATION
NOVEMBER 4-5, 1988
MARIST COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE, NY
Sponsored by the Division of Computer Science & Mathematics,
Marist College, in cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH.
The symposium will combine papers, panels and small-group
workshops to explore all aspects of teaching computer graphics
including
y computer graphics in liberal arts institutions, fine/
commercial art programs and engineering programs
y interdisciplinary techniques
y elementary and secondary computer graphics courses
y undergraduate versus graduate programs
y hardware and software choices
y curriculum aids
A maximum of 250 attendees has been set for this symposium,
due to space limitations. This number includes those presenting
papers and participating in panels. Registration will be on a
first come, first serve basis. The deadline for advance regis-
tration is July 31, 1988. Please send a completed registration
form, with a check made out to Symposium on Computer Graphics
Education, to
Deborah Coleman/Registration Chairperson
West Coast University
440 Shatto Place
Los Angeles, CA 90020
All other questions concerning the symposium should be sent to
William J. Joel/General Chairperson
Marist College
82 North Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
(914) 471-3240, x601
Email: jzem@marist.bitnet
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