Date: Thu 2 Jun 1988 00:04-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 #10 To: AIList@AI.AI.MIT.EDU Status: R AIList Digest Thursday, 2 Jun 1988 Volume 7 : Issue 10 Today's Topics: expert systems in the railroad industry Re: ai languages on unix wanted Connectionist Medical Expert Systems Re: References Needed: Case based reasoning References re AI in weather forecasting? Re: References re AI in weather forecasting? Traveling Salesman Problem (a request) BRAINS Re: ai languages on unix wanted (Poplog availability) Re: Genetic algorithms Connectionist reference wanted ai expert system shells for IBM AT or compatibles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 24 May 88 07:07:08 GMT From: portal!cup.portal.com!Barry_A_Stevens@uunet.uu.net Subject: expert systems in the railroad industry A man with Canadian Pacific Railway in Montreal has built an expert system which works in conjunction with a gas chromatograph and/or spectrograph to perform an analysis of the oil in large engines. By looking for the metals that are carried in the oil, expensive engine failures are found in advance. They are claiming some impressive savings. The details are not at hand now. If interested, please call or write, I'll try to help. Barry Stevens Applied AI Systems PO Box 2747 Del Mar CA 92014 619-755-7231 {_ ------------------------------ Date: 24 May 88 15:54:25 GMT From: nyser!cmx!jfbrule@itsgw.rpi.edu (Jim Brule) Subject: Re: ai languages on unix wanted >} I am starting a Master's thesis and am interested in finding >} an artifical intelligence language that either runs under Unix or >} can be ported to a Unix system. > Try POPLOG: three "AI languages" (LISP, PROLOG, POP-11) in a single environment. Nice online help, nice interfaces between the languages (or at least, more often than not), and Common Lisp. Contact Robin Popplestone at UMass Amherst. -- //\//\\ //\//\\ //\//\\|"Time flies like an arrow; \// // \\// // \\// // \| Fruit flies like a banana." G. Marx // //\\ // //\\ // //\\ |-------------------------------------- /\// \\//\// \\//\// \\/|Jim Brule' | jfbrule@rodan.acs.syr.edu ------------------------------ Date: 25 May 88 17:59:16 GMT From: bhb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Barry Blumenfeld) Subject: Connectionist Medical Expert Systems Can anyone give me pointers to people developing medical expert systems using a connectionist architecture? Barry Blumenfeld bhb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu bhbst@cisunx.UUCP ------------------------------ Date: 26 May 88 12:09:01 GMT From: aplcen!jhunix!apl_aimh@mimsy.umd.edu (Marty Hall) Subject: Re: References Needed: Case based reasoning In article <4007@csli.STANFORD.EDU> leey@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Yichin Lee) writes: > >Could anyone point me to some good references to Case Based Reasoning? Try the Proceedings of the 1988 DARPA Case-Based Reasoning Workshop that just took place in (beautiful! :-) Clearwater Beach, Florida. The Proceedings were edited by Janet Kolodner and included some earlier AAAI papers as well as new ones. Morgan Kaufmann published the proceedings, so assumedly you can get it from them: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 2929 Campus Dr, San Mateo, CA 94403. ISBN # for the proceedings is 0-934613-93-1. Regards- - Marty Hall -- ARPA (preferred) - hall@alpha.ece.jhu.edu [hopkins-eecs-alpha.arpa] UUCP - ..seismo!umcp-cs!jhunix!apl_aimh | Bitnet - apl_aimh@jhunix.bitnet Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MS 100/601, AAI Corp, PO Box 126, Hunt Valley, MD 21030 (301) 683-6455 ------------------------------ Date: 26 May 88 15:53:01 GMT From: aplcen!jhunix!apl_aimh@mimsy.umd.edu (Marty Hall) Subject: References re AI in weather forecasting? Any pointers on where to look re AI in weather forecasting? I have a couple from AI in Engineering Proceedings, but can't find any others. Thanks! - Marty Hall -- ARPA - hall@bravo.cs.jhu.edu [hopkins-eecs-bravo.arpa] UUCP - ..seismo!umcp-cs!jhunix!apl_aimh | BITNET - apl_aimh@jhunix.bitnet Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MS 100/601, AAI Corp, PO Box 126, Hunt Valley, MD 21030 (301) 683-6455 ------------------------------ Date: 27 May 88 14:29:34 GMT From: bbn.com!aboulang@bbn.com (Albert Boulanger) Subject: Re: References re AI in weather forecasting? The Environmental sciences group at NOAA research labs in Boulder has been holding a yearly meeting called AIRES (AI Research in Environmental Science). I don't know if they are having a meeting this year. A point of contact would be William Moninger at the NOAA Labs. I attended the first one. The following is some info on projects that I know of: Synoptic Scale forecasting over Canada. "Knowledge Representation in an Expert Storm Forecasting System" Renee Ellio & Johannes de Haan IJCAI 85 & "Representing Quantitative and Qualitative Knowledge in a Knowledge-Based Storm-Forecasting System Renee Ellio & Johannes de Haan Int. J. Man-Machine Studies (1986) 25, 523-547 The survey (very brief!) paper you saw: "Expert Systems in Meteorology" Benoit Faller AI in Engineering proceedings Mentions the Canada work, fog forecasting, & Avalanche prediction Severe thunderstorm forecasting. "Validation of a Weather Forecasting Expert System" Steven Zubrick, Radian Corp. Machine Intelligence Workshop II Loch Lomond, Scotland, March 1985. + "RuleMaster: An Expert System to Aid in Severe Thunderstorm Forecasting" Steven Zubrick & Charles Reise 14th Conference on Severe Local Storms, Indianapolis, IN, Oct. 29- Nov 1, 1985. Downbust detection from doppler radar. Steve Campbell MIT Lincoln Labs Visibility prediction for airports. Mark Stunder Geomet (Contract with AFGL Hanscomb AFB) Some PROFS related work (ARCHER), William Moninger NOAA ERL. Short term mesoscale forecasting (nowcasting) over the Cape Canaveral area for NASA. James Davis & Robert McArthur ADL Inc. Solar flare forecasting (THEO). Patrick McIntosh NOAA Space Environmental Laboratory, Boulder. Recognizing patterns from weather maps. Bill Havens, University of British Columbia. Downslope snowfall forecasting. George Swetnam Mitre Corp & Richard Bunting UCAR. There are of course other environment-related projects/ideas: flood prediction, forest-fire modeling/prediction (Don Latham at the BLM, Missoula Mont. is a point of contact here.) I am sure I have left projects out. Now the funding picture for weather expert systems in the USA. NOAA's money is mostly for operational tasks. They do conduct research, but mostly in-house (PROFS for instance). NASA is a possible source of funding. ALBM project at DARPA has a weather forecasting component. NEXRAD (joint military and NOAA) doppler radar project may have some money. AWIPS 90 (next weather forecasting system for the 90's NOAA) has a short description of expert system needs. FAA & BLM are also possibilities. Perhaps the best possibility would be to build nowcasting systems in the private sector. My apologies for any errors in my listing. Albert Boulanger aboulanger@bbn.com BBN Labs. Albert Boulanger BBN Labs Inc. ABoulanger@bbn.com (arpa) Phone: (617)873-3891 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 May 88 12:00:20 EDT From: csrobe@icase.arpa (Charles S. Roberson) Subject: Traveling Salesman Problem (a request) Greetings, I am currently doing some work with the TSP and as a result I would like help from the net in obtaining two items: (1) a standard algorithm that currently performs well on the TSP, and (2) maps of cities that are used in classical/pathological cases. Particularly, we would like the code used by S. Lin and B. W. Kernighan in "An Effective Heuristic Algorithm for the Traveling-Salesman Problem" published in _Operations_Research_ (1973), Vol 21, pp. 498-516. For the cities, we would like problems with 20 to 100 cities given in x-y coordinates, if possible. Off course *any* tidbit of information that someone is willing to share will be gratefully appreciated. Thanks, -c +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Charles S. Roberson ARPANET: csrobe@icase.arpa | |ICASE, MS 132C BITNET: $csrobe@wmmvs.bitnet | |NASA/Langley Rsch. Ctr. UUCP: ...!uunet!pyrdc!gmu90x!wmcs!csrobe| |Hampton, VA 23665-5225 Phone: (804) 865-4090 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: 28 May 88 20:35:30 GMT From: well!jjacobs@lll-lcc.llnl.gov (Jeffrey Jacobs) Subject: BRAINS The current issue of IEEE Expert has a sidebar on Expert Systems developed in Japan; the majority of them were developed in something called "Brains"; is anybody familiar with this tool? Referecnes, or exposition is desired. -Jeff Jacobs, CONSART Systems Inc., Technical & Managerial Consultants -P.O. Box 3016, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, (213)376-3802 -BIX: jeffjacobs, CIS: 75076,2603, USENET: jjacobs@WELL ------------------------------ Date: 30 May 88 15:04:10 GMT From: mcvax!ukc!warwick!cvaxa!aarons@uunet.uu.net (Aaron Sloman) Subject: Re: ai languages on unix wanted (Poplog availability) >Subject: ai languages on unix wanted >From: gabe@viusys.UUCP (Gabe Nault @ Unisys, D.A. MINIS PMO, McLean, VA) >Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.ai >>From: flash@ee.qmc.ac.uk >> (Flash Sheridan @ EE Dept, Queen Mary College, U London E1-4NS) >>Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.ai >>Look at PopLog. It's got an okay Common Lisp and a Prolog, plus Pop-11. Thanks for the plug. However, I must make a couple of minor corrections. 1. Standard ML is also available in Poplog as an optional extra. >>It's cheap or free to academics. 2. It is (was) free only to SERC/Alvey-funded academics in the UK, though academic discounts for others are generally large (e.g. 80 to 85%). >>Try aarons@cvaxa.susx.ac.uk 3. Although Poplog is developed at Sussex University we don't handle most of the distribution. We distribute only for UK academics, who should contact: Alison Mudd - alim@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk or School of Cognitive Sciences University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9QN - phone 0273 - 606755 For Academic enquiries/sales in USA and Canada about Poplog or Alphapop (reviewed in Byte May 1988 - but only runs on Mac at present), contact Prof Robin Popplestone Dept. of Computer and Information Science Lederle Graduate Research Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003, USA Email pop@cs.umass.edu or Prof Robin Popplestone Computable Functions Inc., 35 South Orchard Drive, Amherst, MA 01002, USA Phone(413) 253-7637 For non-academic enquiries/sales of Poplog in USA/Canada Systems Designers International Inc Industrial Division New Castle Corporate Commons, 55 Read's Way, New Castle, Delaware 19720, USA Phone (302) 323 1900 (800)888-9988 elsewhere The AI Business Centre SD-Scicon Pembroke House, Pembroke Broadway Camberley, Surrey, GU15 3XD Phone +44 (276) 686200 >>From: flash@ee.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan) >>Reply-To: sheridan@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk >>or_perhaps_Reply_to: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk I hope this information is helpful. Aaron Sloman, School of Cognitive Sciences, Univ of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QN, England ARPANET : aarons%uk.ac.sussex.cvaxa@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk aarons%uk.ac.sussex.cvaxa%nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk@relay.cs.net JANET aarons@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk BITNET: aarons%uk.ac.sussex.cvaxa@uk.ac or aarons%uk.ac.sussex.cvaxa%ukacrl.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu As a last resort (it costs us more...) UUCP: ...mcvax!ukc!cvaxa!aarons or aarons@cvaxa.uucp Phone: University +(44)-(0)273-678294 (Direct line. Diverts to secretary) ------------------------------ Date: 30 May 88 16:46:17 GMT From: pollux.usc.edu!pi@oberon.usc.edu (Bill Pi) Subject: Re: Genetic algorithms In article <317@mmlai.UUCP> barash@mmlai.UUCP (Rev. Steven C. Barash) writes: > >A while back someone posted an extended definition of "Genetic algorithms". >If anyone still has that, or has their own definition, could you please >e-mail it to me? (There's probably lots of room for opinions here; >I'm interested in all perspectives). > >I would also appreciate any pointers to literature in this area. Up till now, there are two conferences held already for Genetic Algorithms: Proceeding of the First International Conference on Genetic Algorithms and Their Applications, ed. J. J. Grefenstette, 1985. Genetic Algorithms and Their Applications: Proceeding of the Second Inter- national Conference o Genetic Algorithms, ed. J. J. Grefenstette, 1987. They can be ordered from: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. 365 Broadway Hillsdale, NJ 07642 (201) 666-4110 A latest collection of research notes on GA is Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing, ed. L. Davis, 1987, Morgan kaufmann Publishers, Inc., Los Altos, Ca. Also, A mailing list exists for Genetic Algorithms researchers. For more info. send mail to "GA-List-Request@NRL-AIC.ARPA". Jen-I Pi :-) UUCP: {sdcrdcf,cit-cav}!oberon!durga!pi Department of Electrical Engineering CSnet: pi@usc-cse.csnet University of Southern California Bitnet: pi@uscvaxq Los Angeles, Ca. 90089-0781 InterNet: pi%durga.usc.edu@oberon.USC.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 May 88 22:32:18 PDT From: John B. Nagle Subject: Connectionist reference wanted What's a good recent book on current connectionist thinking? I've read PDP, and Hillis' thesis, of course, but want something which summarizes recent mainstream thinking in the field. Are energetic approaches along the lines of Witkin, Kass, and Khatib, or the related simulated annealing techniques, considered connectionist? I write this with trepidation, knowing the predeliction of this group to engage in interminable definitional arguments. So please, don't reply to other replies to this query. I am asking so that I can get a feeling of where my own work might be considered to fit. John Nagle [A thought: if these energetic techniques catch on, we are all going to have to study tensor calculus.] ------------------------------ Date: 1 Jun 88 23:10:47 GMT From: frants@polya.stanford.edu (Leonid Frants) Subject: ai expert system shells for IBM AT or compatibles I'm looking for an expert system shell running on a IBM PC/AT and compatibles. It must have an interface to C or some other programming language. The price up to $2000, but the cheaper the better. Any advice or help would be appreciated. It should handle numeric data easily. Thanks, replies to: Leonid Frants frants@polya.stanford.edu ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************