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AIList Digest Volume 8 Issue 080
AIList Digest Thursday, 8 Sep 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 80
Queries:
Expert-ease Software (By Human Edge)
References on language simulation
Linguistic multivariable controller for a nuclear power plant
Darwinism applied to Machine Learning.
Should we use an inductive tool for this problem?
FRL questions
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Date: Sat, 03 Sep 88 22:38:52 EDT
From: 6200265@pucc.princeton.edu
Subject: Expert-ease Software (By Human Edge)
I would like to purchase a copy of the knowledge-acquisition tool By Human
Edge Software called "EXPERT-EASE".
The company went out of business two years ago, and no longer supports the
software.
If you are looking to sell your copy of EXPERT-EASE, or know someone who is
please let me know.
My copy crashed and I need the software to complete my research.
Please respond to 6200265@PUCC on BITNET, or call (609) 452-5340 during the
day.
********************** Thank You ********************
Brenda Belkin.
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Date: Sun, 04 Sep 88 16:21 EST
From: steven horst
<GKMARH%IRISHMVS.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Subject: references on language simulation
I have an undergraduate student who is interested in researching
AI work in language simulation. I am familiar with the main
PROFESSIONAL publications, but don't know of anything that would
give a beginning student a good and reasonably up-to-date description
of major research areas and point him in the right direction for
whatever specific topics he may wish to pursue further. He has
expressed a mild interest in parsers and a stronger interest in
work that involves knowledge representation and context sensitivity.
I should appreciate suggestions for:
(a) Survey texts
(b) Literature review articles
(c) Bibliographies (especially annotated ones).
Please send any suggestions to my bitnet address:
Steven Horst gkmarh@irishmvs.bitnet
Department of Philosophy
Notre Dame, IN 46556
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Date: MON 5 SEP 88
From: Levent Akin<AKIN02%TRBOUN%BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Linguistic multivariable controller for a nuclear power plant
I am a doctoral student (in nuclear engineering) and I plan to build a
linguistic multivariable controller for a nuclear power plant(represented by a
set of first order linear differential equations. I think there are two
possible ways of building the meta-level knowledge base:
1) A reflection of the plant model(actually a subset considering the observable
variables) such as:
"If fuel temperature increases then time rate of power change decreases."
or
2) Start with a minimum set of rules and build the knowledge base using
repeated simulation and a scoring mechanism.
Since in Turkey I have very limited access to AI literature such as proceedings
and reports, any suggestions, flames, etc. to put me on the right track are
welcome.
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*The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and *
*content with your knowledge. *
* Elbert Hubbard, The Philistine Vol. V *
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Levent Akin e-mail:EARN(BITNET): <AKIN02@TRBOUN>
Bogazici Universitesi
Muhendislik Fakultesi
P.K.2
80815 Bebek-Istanbul
TURKEY
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Date: 5-SEP-1988 09:58:48
From: <75008378%VAX2.NIHED.IE@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Darwinism applied to Machine Learning.
Hello,
I'm a lecturer in the School of Electronic Engineering here in
NIHED in Dublin, and I'll shortly be embarking on research for a PhD.
I am interested in Machine Learning, particularly with a
minimal knowledge base and/or using "darwinian"/genetic type mechanisms.
I'd appreciate hearing from people working in this area
(especially, but not exclusively, in Ireland or the UK). As a
quid pro quo, I have just completed an internal research report,
reviewing some work on adaptive classifier systems (Holland et al)
and neuronal group selection (Reeke & Edelman); I won't post it because
its rather long, but I'll happily e-mail it to anyone who's
interested.
Thanks,
Barry McMullin
EARN/BITNET/EUNET: <MCMULLINB@VAX2.NIHED.IE>
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Date: 5 Sep 88 14:48:39 GMT
From: mcvax!dnlunx!lippolt@uunet.UU.NET (Ben Lippolt)
Subject: Should we use an inductive tool for this problem?
Hello,
We have the following problem:
We have about 200 items. Each item belongs to one of 13 classes and
is described by 12 attributes. The values an item has for these 12
attributes are not absolute, however, but are expressed relative to
the other items. Like this:
attr1 attr2 attr3 attr4
3 2 4 3
2 3 3 4
1 4 2 2
4 1 1 1
The numbers refer to items 1 to 4. Let's say that item 1 belongs to
class 1, item 2 to class 3, item 3 to class 6 and item 4 to class 3.
There is a correlation between the class an item belongs to and the
positions it has for each attribute. We can see, for instance, that
item 3 is ranked above item 1 for all attributes and that the class
of item 3 is higher than the class of item 1. If we look at items 2
and 4, we see that of these two for some attributes item 2 is ranked
higher and for some attributes item 4. Both items belong to the same
class.
What we want to do now, is to check the consistency of the
correlation between the class an item belongs to and the relative
positions it occupies for the twelve attributes. For instance, an
item that is ranked very high for each attribute should not belong to
the same class as an item that is ranked very low for each attribute.
We want to start with e.g. 50 items and check for each new item that
we add whether its class and positions are consistent with the other
items.
Our questions are:
Can we use an inductive tool for this problem? Are 50 cases, with
12 attributes each, enough to start working with? Can we find
inconsistencies, which might be rather vague, with such a tool? Is
it possible to incorporate fuzzy logic in an inductive tool? Which
tool should we use?
Any comments are highly appreciated.
Ben Lippolt (..!mcvax!dnlunx!lippolt, or lippolt@hlsdnl5)
Marlies van Steenbergen (..!mcvax!dnlunx!marlies)
PTT Research, Neher Laboratories.
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Date: 6 Sep 88 07:04:43 GMT
From: mcvax!prlb2!crin!napoli@uunet.uu.net (Amedeo NAPOLI)
Subject: FRL questions
My previous questions about FRL have not been answered yet, but I keep
goin'on in my quest.
Can ANYBODY give me some information about FRL in general, and about the
semantics and use of the % and @ special data forms in particuliar ?
Thanx!
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--- Amedeo Napoli @ CRIN / Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy
EMAIL : napoli@crin.crin.fr - POST : BP 239, 54506 VANDOEUVRE CEDEX, France
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