Date: Mon 13 Jun 1988 15:46-EDT From: AIList Moderator Nick Papadakis Reply-To: AIList@AI.AI.MIT.EDU Us-Mail: MIT Mail Stop 38-390, Cambridge MA 02139 Phone: (617) 253-2737 Subject: AIList Digest V7 #32 To: AIList@AI.AI.MIT.EDU Status: RO 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 10 Jun 88 12:42:35 GMT From: Pat Prosser 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. ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jun 88 22:24:38 EDT From: "William J. Joel" 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 ------------------------------ CUT HERE ------------------------------ Symposium on Computer Graphics Education November 4-5, 1988 Advance Registration ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD? _______________________________________________________________ | | | ______ ____________________ ____________________ ______ | | Prefix First Name Last Name Suffix | | | | _______________________________________________________ | | Title | | | | _______________________________________________________ | | Institution | | | | _______________________________________________________ | | Division/Department | | | | _______________________________________________________ | | Street | | | | ___________________________________________ _____ _____ | | City/Town State Zip | | | | ___-___-____ ____________________ _____________________ | | Telephone Email Network | | | | | | Prior to July 31 On-Site | | (space available) | | Registration fee $45 $50 | | (includes lunches both days) | | | |_______________________________________________________________| ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************