Date: Thu 24 Mar 1988 21:25-PST From: AIList Moderator Kenneth Laws Reply-To: AIList@KL.SRI.COM Us-Mail: SRI Int., 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: (415) 859-6467 Subject: AIList V6 #55 - Queries To: AIList@KL.SRI.COM Status: R AIList Digest Friday, 25 Mar 1988 Volume 6 : Issue 55 Today's Topics: Queries - Robot Arm Simulator & Drawing Conversion and Expert Systems & POPLOG Availability in the US & Parallel Approaches to VLSI Routing & Logic/Control Applications & Sandia/Parallel Processing & PC Guru Expert System Application & PC Tools for Developing Expert Systems & Portable CommonLoops & Automatic Knowledge Extraction & Mathematical Work Station For Computer Illiterate & Work on AM Since the Original? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 18 Mar 88 15:18:44 GMT From: paul.rutgers.edu!masticol@rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) Subject: Needed: Robot Arm Simulator Software Hi, The computer science department here at Rutgers is interested in finding a supported graphic robot arm simulator package for use on Sun workstations (preferably) or as a standalone box. We'd be using it for a grad class in robotics. It would be nice if small, simple objects (blocks) could be put into the robot's environment and manipulated by the robot. If the package included some kind of vision output, and warning outputs when the arm intersected itself or anything else in the environment, that would be of great help also. If you are aware of such a package, please reply by email and let me know what you know. (Including vendor name/address/telno, if you have them.) Thanks for your help! Steve Masticola masticol@paul.rutgers.edu ------------------------------ Date: 20 Mar 88 04:19:56 GMT From: pacbell!pbhyg!paw@AMES.ARC.NASA.GOV (Pat Weldon) Subject: Drawing Conversion and Expert Systems Hi out there in netland! This is my first posting to the net, so please bear with me. I am interested in hearing from folks out there that might be doing something that involves drawing conversion and the use of expert systems and PROLOG. Please send any responses via email. Thanks in advance. -- Pat A. Weldon * Pacific Bell * uucp: {ihnp4,dual}!ptsfa!pbhyg!paw 2600 Camino Ramon, 2S500, San Ramon, CA 94583 (415) 823-7277 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 88 22:43:08 PST From: uazchem!dolata@arizona.edu (Dolata) Subject: POPLOG availability in the US Can someone give me a pointer to the party who distributes POPLOG in the US? Since my net connections are a bit rocky, could you send me both email and US Snail mail addresses?? (Phone number?) Thanks for the help. ------------------------------ Date: 22 Mar 88 13:03:38 GMT From: hubcap!jem97@gatech.edu (Jim Mower) Subject: parallel approaches to VLSI routing Does anyone know of research in automated VLSI routing that uses a parallel approach? A book by Rostam Joobbani, _An Artificial Intelligence Approach to VLSI Routing_ (1986), suggests parallelism as a possibility because of the heavy reliance of human designers on visual interaction. Thanks in advance. Jim Mower, Dept. of Geography and Planning University at Albany jem97@leah.albany.edu (internet) jem97@albny1vx (bitnet) ------------------------------ Date: 22 Mar 88 10:48:44 GMT From: otter!cwp@hplabs.hp.com (Chris Preist) Subject: Logic/control applications wanted please. I am looking for applications of Logic Programming to AI/ES problems, and would appreciate any references you can give me. I am particularly interested in work which investigates logic/control separation, though not necessarily in a positive fashion (i.e. a paper which describes a problem which cannot be solved using logic/control separation would be equally useful.). Please email any references you think may be of use, Thanks in advance, Chris Preist. cwp@otter.hple.hp.com cwp@hplb.csnet cwp%hplb.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa ..!hplabs!otter!cwp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Mar 88 12:24:54 pst From: George Cross Subject: Sandia/Parallel Processing Anybody know what this is? Business Week, March 28, 1988 P 75, Developments to Watch "The Speed of a Cray at a Tenth of the Price" ... [paragraph explaining parallel processing omitted] Now computer researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque have developed a formula, or algorithm, that does the trick [to divide up a program so that parallel processors don't get in each other's way]. Using a $2.2 million computer with 1,024 processors from Ncube in Beaverton, Ore., Sandia has solved certain real-life problems up to 1,020 times quicker than a single processor and, in one case, even faster than a $20 million Cray Supercomputer. Sandia says the algorithm should be adaptable to similar computers designed by Intel Systems, Floating Point Systems, and Bolt Beranek & Newman. "We've found a way to tailor problems for parallel processing," says Edwin H. Barsis, Sandia's director of computer science. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Mar 88 01:42:59 GMT From: sdcrdcf!csun!polyslo!mmacfade@burdvax.prc.unisys.com (Mike MacFaden) Subject: EXPERT SYSTEM APPLICATION I am currently learning the PC Guru application from MicroDataBaseAssociates and I was hoping that some of you have had experience with it. I am working on an application that will analyse financial statements (using ratios) to draw conclusions regarding a company's status within the Oil/Gas industry from an investors point of view. Any hints, headaches, experiences would be most appreciated. _____________________________________________________________________________ | Michael R. MacFaden uucp: !sdsu!polyslo!mmacfade | ! Systems Support (805) 756-2005 ! | Cal Poly | ! San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 ! |____________________________________________________________________________| ------------------------------ Date: 22 Mar 88 20:19:18 GMT From: Namasivayam R. Alagiasundaram Subject: PC tools for developing expert systems. I am posting this for a friend , who plans to develop an expert system (diagnostic ) for some chemical methods. He plans to develop the system in an IBM pc. Could anyone suggest any expert systems tools which are available for Pc's. Again, please let me know the manufacturer's name and the price. Please reply to my account. (nrast). Thanx a lot, With appreciation, siva. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Mar 88 14:39:01 PST (Wed) From: rajd@cel.fmc.com (Rajendra Dodhiawala) Subject: Portable CommonLoops Query I am trying to install Portable CommonLoops (PCL) on the Symbolics Genera 7.1 environment. I have the March 17, 1988 version of PCL. I have followed the instructions in the defsys.lisp file. I set the variable *pcl-directory*, save and load defsys.lisp, execute (pcl::compile-pcl). I get an error while trying to compile fsc.lisp. The error occurs in the first eval-when form: some nth level call from load-defclass is trying to append #:SLOT-UNBOUND and NIL -- the first argument is of the wrong type... etc. The question I have is: Is there anybody out there who has been successful in installing PCL on the Symbolics 7.1? I have had problems with the last two releases of PCL (never tried before that). I suspect that I am missing something. There hasn't been any such problems expressed on the CommonLoops mailing list which has explicitly been set up for this purpose. So any pointers in this direction will be greatly appreciated. Thanx in advance. - rajendra FMC Central Engineering Labs 1205 Coleman Ave Santa Clara, CA 95052 (408) 289-3303 ARPAnet: rajd@cel.fmc.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Mar 88 10:22:14 +0100 From: Van Uytven Herman Subject: automatic knowledge extraction Hello, I'm interested in systems for automating the knowledge extraction process. In the literature there's a lot of information about these systems. Personally, I'm looking for some references of commercially available products. Can anyone provide me this information ? Is there anyone who uses these systems, or has some experience with them ? I'd be very grateful if you could send your comments to me. Thanks in advance, Chris Vanhoutte fpaasaa@blekul11.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: 22 Mar 88 23:55:45 GMT From: garfield!gingell@oberon.usc.edu (Thomas Gingell) Subject: Mathematical Work Station For Computer Illiterate Desired I desire software that would approach the following as closely as possible. (Would spend under $10,000.) Preferably for a SUN 3 or 4, but a VAX 11/780 is okay: I would like the capability of integerating a function of two variables numerically with a user typing in the integrand, and the limits. The user would then be shown a table of run time vs. level of approximation to choose from and the option to place the result in a file, or display it graphically at the terminal. When the result is presented, the option to make a change in the integrand and /or limits would be provided and the new result shown next to the previous (if desired). Thank you very much. Please respond via e mail. -- Tom Gingell - Research & Development Labs ARPA: gingell@rdlvax.RDL.COM UUCP: ...!{psivax,csun,sdcrdcf,ttidca}!rdlvax!gingell ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Mar 88 20:59:22 EST From: PJURKAT@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU Subject: work on AM since the original? One of the students in my seminar on belief and uncertainty has just rediscovered the heuristics in AM, the mathematical discovery system which was developed by, I believe, Lenat. In the description of the work there were several references to questions that would be interesting to pursue further. Short of workg forward through the literature looking for back references to AM, I am asking people who read this for references to any follow on work to AM, particulary its heuristics for 'interestingness', which people in my seminar claim was a form of 'belief'. You are welcome to respond through the AIList to the extend that Ken Laws welcomes it. Alternately you may address your repsonses to pjurkat@sitvxc on BITNET. Thanks in advance. Cheers - peter J. pjurkat@sitvxc.bitnet ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************