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AIList Digest Friday, 22 Jul 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 20
Today's Topics:
Queries:
on-line ai abstracts?
Robotics mailing list
Carver Mead and Analog VLSI
Graphael address?
Abstract Operators and Efficent Algorithms
Space Station expert systems
Responses:
Prolog & UK Immigration [was Re: Soundex algorithm]
Frame systems; and net addresses.
muLISP documentation
Pointers on Scheduling systems with preferential attributes
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Date: 15 July 1988 0928-PDT (Friday)
From: stanonik@nprdc.arpa (Ron Stanonik)
Reply-to: stanonik@nprdc.arpa
Subject: on-line ai abstracts?
Hello,
Is an on-line AI abstracts service available? Here's how one
of our users described what they wanted:
"What I had in mind was something more on the order of a computer-
based literature search for AI topics like what is provided by
Psychological Abstracts or ERIC on-line systems for their content
domains."
Thanks,
Ron Stanonik
stanonik@nprdc.arpa
[Editor's note - Several people here at MIT (including myself)
and elsewhere have discussed the possibility of doing something like
this, (either abstracts, an online journal, or full text) - and making
it available over the internet. As far as I know no one has implemented
one yet.
Recently, a reader of the physics list asked a similar
question for that domain, pointing out that since most people in the
research community already use something like TEX or SCRIBE for
formatting papers, it wouldn't be very difficult to provide a pre-print
service to distribute them.
I am considering indexing the AIList archives and making these
available in some way. Any interest?
- nick]
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Date: Sat, 16 Jul 88 20:32:51 PDT
From: John B. Nagle <jbn@glacier.stanford.edu>
Subject: Robotics mailing list
I've suggested the establishment of a robotics mailing list, and I
now have a list of about 25 people who would like to subscribe. Unfortunately,
the machine I'm on is for various reasons not a good place to put the list
distribution. So I'd appreciate a volunteer with good network connections,
including BITNET and the UK nets, to take up the task.
John Nagle
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Date: Monday, 18 Jul 88 14:37:50 EDT
From: boyle (Franklin Boyle) @ a.psy.cmu.edu
Subject: Carver Mead and Analog VLSI
There have been several postings recently about Carver Mead and his
work on analog VLSI and how he's applying it to the visual system, etc.
Does anyone have pointers to his work as it applies to the visual system,
neural networks, AI in general, etc.?
Thanks,
Frank
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Date: 19 Jul 88 15:44:51 GMT
From: mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!glasgow!pp@uunet.uu.net (Mr Paul Philbrow)
Subject: Graphael address?
I've seen Graphael's G-Base described as an AI oodbms.
I'm evaluating oodbs for engineering applications.
Does someone have a contact address (electronic
or paper) for Graphael? Please email.
Thanks, Paul
Persistent Programming Research Group
--
Paul Philbrow, Glasgow University,
Computing Science Department, pp@uk.ac.glasgow.cs
Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland (or try pp%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk)
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Date: 19 Jul 88 23:33:35 GMT
From: ndsuvax!ncthangi@uunet.uu.net (sam r. thangiah)
Subject: Abstract Operators and Efficent Algorithms
Could anyone give me pointers of references to work done on intelligently
combining abstract operators to produce efficent algorithms?
Thanks in advance
Sam
--
Sam R. Thangiah, North Dakota State University.
300 Minard Hall UUCP: ...!uunet!plains.nodak.edu!ncthangi
NDSU, Fargo BITNET: ncthangi@plains.nodak.edu.bitnet
ND 58105 ARPA,CSNET: ncthangi%plains.nodak.edu.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
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Date: 20 Jul 88 15:09:28 GMT
From: att!chinet!mcdchg!clyde!watmath!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me
!ecf!apollo@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Vince Pugliese)
Subject: Space Station expert systems
I am posting this item for someone without mail privileges
The preferred address is the physical address contained in the
item below, but I will be glad to relay messages if e-mailed
to me. Thanks in advance.
*********************************************************************
Our company is involved in the development of an autonomous
operations planner for space station applications using AI
techniques (specifically Expert Systems). We are currently
investigating the purchasing of software/hardware to
accomplish this task. We are looking at ES Shells as well
as the possibility of using various AI languages to write
our own ES.
For those companies viewing this request, product
information can be sent to us at the address below. We
are also interested in a list of developers/manufacturers,
if anyone has one. Any useful information would be
appreciated.
Wayne Sincarsin
Dynacon Enterprises Limited
5050 Dufferin St.
Suite 200
Downsview, Ontario
Canada, M3H 5T5
(416) 667-0505
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Date: 18 Jul 88 08:57:24 GMT
From: mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!simon@uunet.uu.net (Simon Brooke)
Subject: Response to - Prolog & UK Immigration [was Re: Soundex
algorithm]
In article <1180@anuck.UUCP> jrl@anuck.UUCP (j.r.lupien) writes:
>
>Not really a C question anymore, but there is such a beast. The
>United Kingdom imigration and naturalization department has a
>Prolog implementation for their citizenship status analysis system.
>
Marek Sergot wrote a paper in 1986:
Sergot, M et al: _The_British_Nationality_Act_as_a_Logic_Programme_ [in:
Communications of the ACM, May, 1986 vol 29 no 5]
I can't find my copy of this just now, but no claim was made that this
system had ever been applied by the immigration people - indeed, as I
remember, no-one outside the 'gosh wow negation-as-failure is the answer
to all the world's problems' school of prolog enthusiasts was all that
impressed. The paper has (of course) been attacked by such opponents of
legal applications of AI as Philip Leith [e.g]:
Leith, P: _Legal_Expert_Systems:_Misunderstanding_the_Legal_Process_ [in:
Computers and the Law, Number 49, September 1986]
to which you may well say 'so what', since Leith would never admit to any
value in any knowledge-based approach to the law. Anyway - the system has
never been used to decide real world cases.
** Simon Brooke *********************************************************
* e-mail : simon@uk.ac.lancs.comp *
* surface: Dept of Computing, University of Lancaster, LA 1 4 YW, UK. *
* *
* Neural Nets: "It doesn't matter if you don't know how your program *
*************** works, so long as it's parallel" - R. O'Keefe **********
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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 88 08:53:13 PDT
From: lambert@cod.nosc.mil (David R. Lambert)
Subject: Response to - Frame systems; and net addresses.
In response to ncthangi's query (my direct email response was returned):
You might consider Intelligence/Compiler (IntelligenceWare, Inc., 213-417-
8896; $500), and perhaps First Class Fusion (Programs in Motion, 617-653-5093;
>$500?).
David R. Lambert
lambert@nosc.mil
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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 88 09:57:05 PDT
From: John B. Nagle <jbn@glacier.stanford.edu>
Subject: Response to - muLISP documentation
muLISP and muMATH comes from
Soft Warehouse, Inc.
3615 Harding Avenue, Suite 505
Honolulu, Hawaii 96816
USA
808-734-5801
Although a bit dated, (the original version was for the Apple II, in 1979),
it remains a useful symbolic math system. Most LISP users will find the
dialect rather strange, both in syntax and semantics, but not inconsistent.
John Nagle
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Date: 19 Jul 88 09:55:36 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: Response to - Pointers on Scheduling systems with
preferential attributes
To quote roughly "a scheduling system that takes account of
preferential attributes ... such as worker/boss relationships ...".
In essence what you have are preference constraints that may be
satisfied or relaxed. ISIS and OPIS address this (Smith Fox Ow
LePape). ISIS and OPIS are now (how can we say) mature? For more
recent work on factory scheduling (and in particular dynamic/reactive
scheduling) see Ellerby (the SemiMan project) and also the work done
by us (DAS, distributed asynch scheduler).
Nice wee problem scheduling
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